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The Trump Administration Has Mastered the Art of the ‘Grumblebrag’
We all know these people: the North American humblebragger. They are insufferable at any job, cookout or dinner party. You can hear them, across the room, in the next office, standing out on the patio talking loud enough on their cellphones that everyone else can hear: “Nah, I’m gonna let it ring. I told Barack,…
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US Cabinet Members, America’s Least Christian White People, Have a Regular Bible-Study Group
I grew up in a Christian household. Both of my parents were raised Baptist, and they raised me as one, but I wouldn’t quite say that we were practicing. We didn’t go to church very often, and we mostly just prayed before eating and while hoping that the Pirates would win the pennant. And while…
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Trump’s Pick for HHS Secretary Has Deep Ties to Big Pharma
Updated Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, 1:30 p.m. EST: Slate reports that Alex Azar, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services, left his job overseeing an Eli Lilly investigation to become the pharmaceutical company’s top lobbyist. From 2001 to 2005, Azar was the Department of Health and Human Services’ general counsel and…
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How Trump’s Cabinet Meeting Devolved Into a Mob Movie
It was supposed to be a simple photo opportunity where President Donald Trump tries not to look like an evil tyrant as his all-white Cabinet (don’t worry; we see you, Ben Carson!) sits around the president, but of course this moment involved Trump, which means it got really weird really fast. After signing some stuff,…
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Trump Gon’ Make Us Lose Our Minds
Maybe The Root is insane. Maybe all the newspapers, cable news shows and pundits that evenhandedly cover Donald Trump, constantly offering him the benefit of the doubt, are doing it right and we are doing it wrong. Perhaps we are the crazy ones for calling out the salmon-colored, sandpaper-faced president every time he sends a…
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Public Education Is Doomed: VP Mike Pence Casts Tiebreaking Vote to Confirm Betsy DeVos
Betsy DeVos, the woman who has no connection to public schooling or experience running a multimillion-dollar anything, was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday as U.S. education secretary. The vote went to a 50-50 split after two Republican senators—Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska—went against their party and voted with their heads…
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Education Secretary Nominee Betsy DeVos Is a Plagiarizing Machine; Still Passes Senate Committee
The appointed apples fall not far from the corrupt presidential tree. Betsy DeVos—you know, the woman President Executive Order pegged to be the education secretary—looks to have plagiarized at least two of her answers on her Senate-committee take-home exam. Yet the nomination of the controversial billionaire who never attended a public school in her life…
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Voting Rights, Already Under Siege, May Fare Worse Under Trump
During the Thanksgiving holiday, President-elect Donald Trump added a bit of fuel to the increasing nationwide debate over voting rights in the wake of his election. On Sunday, railing against a push for recounts in several states, Trump sent out a tweet with this baseless claim: “In addition to winning the electoral debate in a…