Politics

The role of the first lady is not a simple one. Just look at Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann, and her recent campaign meltdown — and she’s not even in the White House. But Michelle Obama makes the job look easy, and most recently the first lady impressed the nation and the world with her rousing…

On this day 150 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, stating that by the following New Year’s Day in 1863, slaves across America would be “thenceforward and forever free.” According to a release from the White House, President Obama, in addition to signing a law erecting a statue of abolitionist Frederick…

On Friday, Republican Paul Ryan’s message of economic cost-cutting wasn’t so well received at the AARP convention in New Orleans. During his speech to members of the group, the vice presidential hopeful declared that repealing President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act would allow the American economy to get ahead of the curve. But, according to…

This week President Barack Obama brought a little bit of black history to America’s capital city. The commander-in-chief signed into law H.R. 6336, which directs the Congressional Joint Committee on the Library to accept a statue of Frederick Douglass from the District of Columbia and erect it in Emancipation Hall in the United States Capitol…

Reflecting on Mitt Romney’s recent comments about the “47 percent,” Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson says that “voters will soon have the opportunity to show him we’re not as stupid as he thinks.”  Now, at least, there can be no doubt about who is waging class warfare in this presidential campaign. Mitt Romney would pit…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORSEPTEMBER 21, 2012 In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. Later in the morning, the President will travel to Woodbridge, Virginia. The departure from the South Lawn will…

Boston.com‘s Francie Latour questions the GOP candidate’s claim that being white is a disadvantage in the presidential race. These days, if you are running for the office of President of the United States, it is a real drag to be white. So says Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who has taken on the distinct color of…

(The Root) — The crushing image of a sobbing Elijah West captured the collective sorrow of people across the globe a year ago when word spread that a Georgia Parole Board had denied clemency for his cousin Troy Davis. The photograph of the reedy West being escorted from Georgia’s Towaliga County Line Baptist Church, across…

(Special to The Root) — A year ago, on Sept. 21, the state of Georgia killed my uncle. Before Troy Davis‘ name buzzed all over the news and was known around the world, I called him “Uncle Troy.” I was born in 1994, after he went on death row. I went regularly with my family…