Politics

This is Part 3 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. Come Nov. 2, most polling says Americans will be entering voting booths with two things on their minds: fruitless job searches and the subsequent lightness of their…

Here we go again. Over the weekend, the Tea Party Nation sent out an e-mail to Minnesota voters backing independent Lynne Torgerson over Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison. Who is the Tea Party Nation? The same group that sponsored the Tea Party convention earlier this year, headlined by Sarah Palin. The reason given for backing Torgerson…

By Michael E. Ross Next Tuesday, Rhode Island voters will decide whether to shorten the state’s official name from “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” to “State of Rhode Island,” out of a desire by some citizens’ groups and state lawmakers to erase from its formal name what they see as a blemish. Unlike…

In true Obama fashion, the president is reaching out to Democratic voters despite being “off the campaign trail” for the next three days. Less than a week before Election Day, President Barack Obama is quietly using the power of his office to reach Democratic voters in a final effort to get supporters to the polls…

AskMen.com has rolled out the results of its fifth annual “Top 49 Most Influential Male” survey, and there were some surprises, like celebrities ranking higher than the president of the United States. Comedian Jon Stewart, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Kanye West made up the top five. Not only is West in great…

By Jessica Dweck On Election Day, Colorado residents will determine who gets to be a person. They’ll vote on Amendment 62, which defines a person as a human being from the beginning of “biological development.” That’s code for conception. The measure would grant fertilized eggs the right to life, liberty, happiness and due process of…

It’s as if Juan Williams were a man in a small rain forest tribe and he called out a taboo name for a spirit. Or a lion. Or said the name of someone deceased. In human societies, some words will be considered magical — and not just in the societies we think of as primal.…

This is Part 2 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. As African-American environmental-justice proponents Van Jones and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins will tell you, environmental sustainability and climate change are, in addition to their general importance, also tremendously relevant…

President Barack Obama plugged his administration’s job-creation efforts eight days before the midterm elections. During a campaign stop in Rhode Island, Obama acknowledged that some of his policies were not popular and that Americans were frustrated by the weak economic recovery. The president stressed that the steps he took averted a second economic depression. “It…

Democrats usually have women voters in the bag. In the 2006 midterm elections, exit polls showed that women voters favored Democrats overall by 12 percentage points. In 2008 Barack Obama got 56 percent of the female vote in the general election. But as Nov. 2 looms, it’s become obvious to Democrats that their once comfortable…