Politics

Beloved singer and activist Harry Belafonte put both feet down in the paint on Sunday when he compared the Tea Party-supporting Koch brothers to the KKK, the New York Post reports. Belafonte, 87, was warming up the mostly black congregation at the First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem to introduce democratic mayoral front-runner, Bill de Blasio.…

(The Root) — Exactly five years after his election, it’s a tough time to take stock of Barack Obama’s legacy. In the same week in which he’s had to defend Obamacare’s difficult rollout and that saw his approval rating drop to a low of 42 percent, Forbes magazine is now piling on by ranking Obama…

(The Root) — Five years ago, The Root launched to deliver news and analysis focused on the issues of black Americans and the greater Diaspora. However, we’d be remiss if we didn’t put our conception into context. The creation of our site in January 2008 was in large part because of the success of Barack Obama’s campaign…

(The Root) — The Republican Party has done a masterful job distorting the facts about Obamacare. From its inception to the official launch, members of the GOP and conservative talking heads have twisted a tale of lies about the Affordable Care Act with the clear aim to undermine both the policy and the president. The…

(The Root) — In the Gettysburg Address, which Abraham Lincoln delivered 150 years ago this month, he declared that the Union fought to defend “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” Americans soon claimed this phrase as the definitive description of their democracy and have celebrated it as such ever since. Yet…

(The Root) — From its initial inception to the official launch, members of the GOP and conservative talking heads have fought the Affordable Care Act. But millions of impoverished Americans and the working poor do not have and cannot afford health insurance coverage. This is especially the case in the 26 states that opted out…

President Barack Obama’s job-performance and personal approval ratings have hit their lowest point since he took office. According to an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll, 51 percent disapprove of his job in office and 45 percent view the president in a “negative light.” According to report analysis by NBC News, no single reason is to blame…

(The Root) — As Cory Booker takes his place in the United States Senate today, history suggests that it is not too early for him to start planning his re-election campaign. Yes, this is partly because his term expires in January 2015. But it’s also because only one African American has ever won re-election to…

(The Root) — It turns out that over the past four years, all those times President Barack Obama told Americans that “if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it,” it wasn’t quite as simple as it sounded. In politics, after all, if you can fit a proposal on a bumper sticker, there’s a…