Politics

President Barack Obama on Saturday said that Congress has stymied recovery by blocking measures he said would create jobs and help growth, according to Reuters. In remarks recorded on Wednesday on his campaign-style bus tour in Illinois and aired during his holiday in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, Obama said the stalled construction, trade and payroll tax…

During the turbulent 1960s and ’70s, segregationists like Alabama Gov. George Wallace and Boston anti-busing rabble-rouser Louise Day Hicks whipped up what was then known as “the White Backlash.” It was nothing less than an all-out effort to use mob rule to roll back the gains of the civil rights movement and drive blacks back…

Robin Givhan, in the Daily Beast, reviews early fashion nuances of the 2012 presidential race, noting that the requisite suit-and-tie have all but been vanquished to the closet. In the pursuit of the presidency, as candidates make use of every form of communication — including style and its nuanced inflections — the earnest rolling of…

There is controversy brewing over President Obama’s family vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. Some feel that he should not be on vacation at a time when the nation is in such a fragile state. Others think that it’s a slap in the face to the downtrodden and unemployed. Karen Kaplan of the Los Angeles Times is…

A few weeks ago, President Obama’s most likely scenario for re-election was facing a moderate Republican who had made few controversial remarks in his years in public life and could easily cast himself as a business-focused technocrat. But that potential opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, is no longer the heavy favorite to win the…

While the major metropolitan areas in the state have tilted toward Democrats, Texas is still a solidly red state. Our governor-turned-presidential candidate Rick Perry hasn’t had to court the African-American vote, since he’s won three elections and become Texas’ longest-serving governor without it.  Perry hasn’t ignored black Texans. He’s routinely taken part in the United…

With the debt ceiling behind him, President Obama remains saddled with a massive task that may not get as much attention as the economy but is the basis for it: reforming education. Over the past two years, Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have managed not to offer key leadership in the rewriting of…