Politics

(The Root) — This week actress Stacey Dash generated some of the greatest attention she has enjoyed in recent years. Unfortunately for her, not all of the attention was positive. While many fans commended the actress’ youthful appearance during a televised cast reunion of the classic 1995 teen film Clueless, others harshly criticized her recent…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012 In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. UPDATED: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney at 1:30 p.m. ET. In the afternoon, the President…

(Special to The Root) — The economy added 114,000 jobs last month, on top of an upward revision of 86,000 jobs to July and August. The private sector has added jobs for 31 consecutive months, and after coming into office in the depths of the Great Recession, President Barack Obama has created more than a…

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson says that he did not hear one concrete departure from the president’s approach in the speech that was supposed to distinguish his Republican opponent. I wasn’t surprised that Romney’s highly touted Major Policy Speech on foreign affairs Monday offered few specifics. But even in its generalities, Romney’s tour d’horizon sounded…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 In the morning, the President will depart from San Francisco, California en route Columbus, Ohio. The departure from San Francisco International Airport and the arrival at Rickenbacker Inland Port will be open press. In the afternoon, the…

Several races should make the GOP nervous as the election approaches, Juan Williams writes at the Hill. As the old Negro League pitcher Satchel Paige once told reporters after his team faded in September and lost the pennant: “The future isn’t what it used to be.” What’s true in baseball is also true in politics.…

In a piece for the New Yorker, Jelani Cobb explains how the Obama presidency has “validated both our hopes and our fears and given dueling legitimacy to optimism and cynicism simultaneously.” … There is an obvious downside to this familiarity with the obstacles implicit within a black Presidency. Obama at times tends toward insouciance regarding…

(Special to The Root) —Within five weeks of the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education outlawing segregation, the University of Texas named its newest dormitory in honor of Col. William Simkins, a law-school professor from 1899 to 1929. Prior to joining UT’s faculty, Simkins organized a Ku Klux Klan chapter in…