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  • Polls Show Donald Trump Has Low Favorability Ratings Going Into His Presidency; He Calls Them Fake and Rigged on Twitter

    Orange Foolius Donald Trump is just days away from his Jan. 20 inauguration, and recent polls show that he has the lowest favorability rating of any incoming president in the last 40 years. A new ABC News/Washington Post poll (pdf) shows that only 40 percent of Americans view Trump favorably and 54 percent view him…

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    Monique Judge

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  • A Tribute to Our Great Uncle Joe

    All this week, social media timelines, television viewing and news outlets will be flooded with praise, retrospectives and syrupy-sweet tributes to Barack Obama, lamenting the end of his tenure as president of the United States. I can already tell you that there will be a “speck of dust” caught in my eye all day on…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • America Didn’t Deserve Michelle Obama

    I forgot exactly where we were in Pittsburgh. Maybe driving from the Target in East Liberty to the YMCA in the Mexican War Streets. Or, perhaps, at my wife’s grandmother’s house in the Hill District, eating smothered turkey burgers with smoked kale greens and washing them down with Pineapple Faygo. But I do remember who…

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    Damon Young

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  • So, When Is It OK to Meet With Trump?

    Donald Trump is going to be president of the United States, and therefore people are going to have to talk with him. Some of those people will be black and will disagree with Trump, some of those people will be black and agree with everything Trump says, and some of those people will be black…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Mandarin Orange Mugabe Isn’t Distracting Us; He’s Really That Frail

    If I had a dollar for every headline our president-elect generates in a single day, let alone an entire campaign season, I would probably have enough money to pay off both my student loans and at least half of the debt his lying ass pretends not to have. As someone who can see, hear, read…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • Shut Up, Bernie Sanders

    If hubris and the successful pursuit of headlines were genuine indicators of political aptitude, perhaps Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would actually be the Svengali he’s presently being sold as. Of course, Sanders, like our president-elect, the Marigold Manchurian Candidate, can rightly lay claim to scoring huge, albeit majorly melanin-deficient, crowds that found kinship in campaigns…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • Republicans Are Playing a Game of Jenga With Health Care Reform

    As a majority of Americans await the inauguration of a president they didn’t vote for, even more Americans face an unclear future about their health care coverage. President-elect Donald Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress have pledged to repeal and eventually replace the Affordable Care Act, known to most as Obamacare. In fact, in the wee…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Why I Won’t Cry Over or Celebrate the Dylann Roof Death Sentence

    On Tuesday a unanimous jury sentenced Dylann Roof, a 22-year-old white supremacist who killed nine churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., to death. This sentence made Roof the first person in United States history to be given the death penalty in federal court for a hate crime. It only took three hours of deliberation for the jury…

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    Preston Mitchum

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  • 4 Takeaways From Donald Trump’s 1st Press Conference as President-Elect

    After weeks and weeks of delay, President-elect Donald Trump held his first postelection press conference. The conference itself was relatively short and didn’t necessarily provide many substantive answers about conflicts of interest, which was ostensibly what the main topic was. However, it did lay the framework for how Trump’s press conferences will go once he…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Watch Live: Jeff Sessions Confirmation Hearing, Day 2

    The Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) enters day 2. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is scheduled to testify against Sessions. As previously reported on The Root, Booker is the first sitting senator to oppose another sitting senator for a Cabinet position. Cornell Brooks, president and CEO of the NAACP, who was…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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