Politics

If you are unaware of a congressional midterm election this year, you may very well wake up the morning of Nov. 5 and slam “WTF” into your Twitter feed. Also sad will be the quizzical looks of other black voters upon learning that they were crucial to the nation’s electoral fate. The exit polling will…

President Barack Obama is a man on a mission. As the second year of his second term commences, he embarks on a progressive agenda, mirroring the campaign of hope and change that originally inspired a new generation of voters in 2008. Key to his platform is an unapologetic focus on income inequality, the long-term unemployed…

NBC host David Gregory got into a heated debate with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus about Priebus’ forgiving views toward New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the role Christie played, if any, in the traffic-jam scandal reported last week. In a Sunday morning interview on Meet the Press, Priebus argued that Americans would forgive…

Bipartisan differences over dealing with issues of poverty were readily apparent on Wednesday, the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s declaration of a “war on poverty,” NPR reports. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) called Johnson’s effort a success. “The national poverty rate has gone down from 26 percent in 1967 to 16 percent in 2012,” she said,…

Haitian President Michel Martelly called for residents to reflect Sunday on the devastating earthquake that swept through the small nation four years ago, killing tens of thousands and leaving scores of people homeless after it decimated buildings and houses, the Associated Press reports. The Haitian flag was flown at half-staff, and clubs were to remain closed.…