Politics

It’s bad enough only 15 percent of us will be passing through the polling station for one of the most important elections of our time. You can imagine that barely a slice of voters know or care about the local prosecutor running for office. And yet that position commands as much control over our daily…

With all the talk about how Hispanics will be the majority ethnic group in the U.S. in the near future, and all the studies that have, as a result, examined the political and economic power that they will wield, it’s surprising to hear that Republican candidates running for congressional seats don’t need a single Latino vote to be victorious in…

It’s hard not to see this coming. Democrats will be popping Tylenols in bed the morning of Nov. 5—only hours after election-night returns stream in. And once political junkies sort out the scorched earth, some will point not only to the absence of usually reliable, Democratic-leaning black voters at the polls but also to the…

In an effort to tamp down fear about the spread of Ebola in the U.S., President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans not to give in to hysteria or fear. “This is a serious disease, but we can’t give in to hysteria or fear—because that only makes it harder to get people the accurate information…

As conventional (and political) wisdom goes, black Americans, on average, typically vote for Democrats, and so when the Call & Post, a Cleveland newspaper that targets African-American readers, endorsed Ohio’s Republican governor for re-election on Tuesday, it represented a slight change of course in the stream of racial politics. Although it’s not the first time…

Editor’s note: According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,​ Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp claimed that nearly 40,000 voter-registration applications in Georgia that were supposedly unaccounted for have been found and processed, and those applicants are now registered to vote. Kemp also said on Thursday that another 10,000 or so applications need more information about the identities of the applicants before they are cleared.…

Campaigning for president in 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama said: “Affordable, universal health care for every single American must not be a question of whether, it must be a question of how.” What followed three years later? Scary claims from Republicans of “death panels,” “socialized medicine” and “government takeovers” of health care. And in 2009, health…

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivered the keynote address to the New Jersey State NAACP Conference Saturday afternoon. He touted some of the criminal-justice issues that he’s worked on recently with African-American leaders, but over the course of his tenure as governor, Christie has an abysmal record when it comes to most issues that are…