Politics

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…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 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 Miami, Florida. The departure from the South Lawn…

(The Root) — Even the dullest knife in the drawer could predict that when the mayor of a big city drops the f-bomb on the president of the teachers union during one of their earliest meetings, subsequent strike negotiations might not go as smoothly as possible. No, they didn’t. So as Chicago schoolteachers returned to…

The now-infamous “47 percent” comment was more like President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” comment than anything else, The Root’s contributing editor, David Swerdlick, writes at the NY Daily News. Yesterday, when I heard Mitt Romney’s blockbuster comment that “47% of Americans” are voting for President Obama because they’re “dependent on government,” I had the…