Politics
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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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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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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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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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The President Had Us All in Tears During His #ObamaFarewell Address
The Obama farewell wasn’t a funeral. Far from it. In fact, it was a revival. At the close of a historic two-term presidency, as the nation’s first African-American president of the United States, Barack Obama had one last benevolent act: to remind the country not to give up on hope or the belief that it…
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Women’s March on Washington: Speaking on Many Issues With 1 Voice
Organizers of the Women’s March on Washington, set for Saturday, Jan. 21, are gearing up for what they hope will be the largest mass mobilization ever on the first full day of a new presidential administration. It is set for one day after the swearing-in of President-elect Donald Trump. “You can’t ignore a grassroots group…
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Jeff Sessions Is Dangerous and Should Not Be Confirmed as Trump’s Attorney General [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Trump Claims He’ll Rebuild the Inner Cities, but How Committed Is He?
President-elect Donald Trump, in the first version of his 100-day action plan to make America great again, promised to spend $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. He said that the plan would involve leveraging public-private partnerships and private investments through tax incentives, adding that the program would be revenue-neutral. A few days later…
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Could More School Choice Equal More Problems in Education Under Trump?
President-elect Donald Trump has been very clear about his plans for education reform under his administration. He plans to reprioritize federal dollars for an additional federal investment of $20 billion toward school choice. This, he says, will give states the option of funding students’ education at the public or private school of their choice. It…