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The Missing Black Voters
by Marc Mauer and Christopher Uggen A new Census Bureau report highlights a significant milestone in electoral participation, finding that in the 2012 election African Americans voted at a higher rate than whites for the first time. The two point … Continue reading →
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The Future of Voting Rights
By The Editorial Board When five justices of the Supreme Court disabled the Voting Rights Act last Tuesday, they left it to Congress to find a new formula to restore one of the great landmarks of equality and once again … Continue reading →
The Meaning of Mandela
By Joshua DuBois As President Obama visits South Africa, Nelson Mandela lies dying. I—like millions of Americans who grew up thousands of miles away from the massacre at Sharpeville and the rally at Durban, and decades away from the trials … Continue reading →
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Congress, give us new Voting Rights Act
By Donna Brazile In an earthshaking 1965 speech to Congress and to the nation, President Lyndon Johnson spoke directly to the sinister forces that had restricted black Americans’ right to vote across the South — laying out the goals of … Continue reading →
When Journalists Attack
By Jon Favreau If you saw the news at any point in the last month, chances are that you heard Barack Obama compared in some way to Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal (BuzzFeed has my favorite compilation here). A quick … Continue reading →
The Fight for Black Men
By Joshua DuBois There is an easy way to meet Joe Jones, and a hard way. Let’s start with the easy way. If you and I were at a cocktail party, I’d introduce you to a tall, bald, black man, … Continue reading →
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Tagged african american, Baltimore, Barack Obama, black, black men, Daily Beast, family, Joshua DuBois, Newsweek, North Carolina, race
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Despite What the President Said, There’s Nothing “Transparent” About a Secret Court Issuing Secret Rulings
By Trevor Timm On Charlie Rose last night, President Obama gave his most detailed defense of the NSA surveillance programs since a FISA court order demanding that Verizon hand over phone records information on all its US customers leaked to the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008, National Security Agency, NSA, Obama, privacy, surveillance, technology, United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Washington Post
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Michelle Obama Heckled: No Angry Black Woman, Just a First Lady
By Helena Andrews If it’s been true in past elections that what the average Joe Voter really wants is to share a beer with the president, then perhaps getting into a bar fight with the first lady will be 2016’s litmus … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, culture, First Lady of the United States, Heckler, Helena Andrews, LGBT, Michelle Obama, post-racial
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Obama appoints Susan Rice as national security adviser
By Michael O’Brien Hailing her longtime role as a “trusted adviser,” President Barack Obama formally named U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as his next national security adviser on Wednesday.Obama tapped Rice, a target of Republican criticism in recent months, to succeed … Continue reading →
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American power in the 21st century will be defined by the ‘rise of the rest’
By Joseph S. Nye Jr. In the last century, the United States rose from the status of second-tier power to being the world’s sole superpower. Some worry that the United States will be eclipsed in this century by China, but … Continue reading →