Feb 13 2015
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With the pop-verse watching, Whitney Houston’s 21-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, is on life support in a…
Feb 7 2015
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A lot of smart people have accumulated quite a bit of data showing how many people, and who specifically, have…
Feb 2 2015
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You'd think that, as stressed out as parents are over child care, the exorbitant cost might be one of those things…
Jan 16 2015
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Philosophically, President Obama would give us all four free years of a college education if he could.
Jan 9 2015
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It’s not only a brand-new year; it’s also a brand-spanking-new 114th Congress: Fasten your seat belts, fam, because…
Jan 1 2015
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It’s that time of the year to start making sense of the next: predictions. And there is no subject about which this…
Dec 20 2014
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Should we just get rid of grand juries altogether? That’s a big question many folks are rightly asking, from average…
Dec 12 2014
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Charles D. Ellison
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It’s not as if state-sanctioned torture is anything new. Include the last 400-odd years of black victimization and…
Dec 5 2014
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Justifiable outrage and protests are sweeping through major cities like a Hunger Games brush fire. Traffic jams and…
Nov 20 2014
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The last thing any sane or seasoned political observer expected from a president who just underwent a…
Nov 12 2014
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More than a week later, we’re still trying to figure this one out: How much of an impact did voting restrictions…
Nov 7 2014
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The next two years will be twisted in knots—for Democrats, for Republicans and for the “black electorate.”…
Oct 28 2014
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Making sense of high-profile House, Senate and gubernatorial races this tight will mean breaking down every voting…
Oct 21 2014
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Is it a recovering economy or not? That’s one of the great, persistent mysteries stumping modern economists and…
Oct 14 2014
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What we do know is this year’s midterm Senate races will be tight—what we don’t know is just how tight. Despite…
Oct 7 2014
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Ebola had been on blast since the spring, but despite the thousands of West Africans dying from it, few in the U.S.…
Sep 30 2014
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Let the appointment games begin. It may not be the kitchen-table topic of choice, but President Barack Obama’s…
Sep 23 2014
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The 2016 presidential race hasn’t officially started yet, but we all know the presumptive contenders for party…
Jun 12 2014
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The News: Republican lawmakers are jockeying to succeed Rep. Eric Cantor as House majority leader following his…
Jun 9 2014
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Alabama Plays Both Sides of Voting Rights, With Blacks in the Middle