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ANALYSIS – Can this actually be passed in a Congress divided by partisanship on nearly every issue? Here’s a closer look..
theGRIO REPORT – Over the last few months, Obama’s administration, with little fanfare, has enacted a series of unabashedly liberal policies that the Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders have long urged.
ANALYSIS – Obama and his aides have argued the president will increasingly use his ‘convening’ power to bring influential people outside of politics together and solve problems…
theGRIO REPORT – Bowing to concerns from both the public and members of Congress, President Obama announced Friday his administration would seek to overhaul a controversial program run by the National Security Agency that collected huge numbers of phone records of Americans in bulk…
theGRIO REPORT – Kevin Lewis is departing this month to become the press secretary at the Department of Justice.
ANALYSIS – The push by President Obama and Democrats to extend unemployment insurance for 1.3 million people whose benefits ran out at the end of last month is only the first step in a series of debates in which the party will try to cast Republicans as out of step with Americans still struggling economically…
theGRIO REPORT – The Obama administration is hailing more than 1 million enrollments in health care plans in December alone as a sign that the health care reform law known as ‘Obamacare’ is working…
theGRIO REPORT – The Obama administration announced on Tuesday that more than 6 million Americans have obtained health insurance through the new health care law…
ANALYSIS – President Obama decided to embrace confrontation in the last months of 2013, and it has worked…
About 1.2 million Americans have enrolled in new health care options since October 1, according to figures released by the federal government on Wednesday, illustrating the controversial Affordable Care Act is providing health insurance to some Americans despite the struggles of HealthCare.gov.
theGRIO REPORT – In his speech at a historic memorial service for Nelson Mandela, President Obama called the first black president of South Africa ‘a giant of history’ and urged people around the world to make ‘his life’s work your own’…
theGRIO REPORT – A poll of 18-29 year-olds released by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics showed some troubling numbers for President Obama…
ANALYSIS – They are in many ways kindred spirits, patient, confident men who rose to power, employing their unifying styles to become the first black presidents of their respective countries.
theGRIO REPORT – President Obama gave a provocative speech about race, class and inequality in Southeast Washington today. Here’s a closer look…
theGRIO REPORT – Administration officials say that getting a large percentage of young people into the private insurance plans is a more important goal than reaching 7 million insured, because it would reassure insurance companies that the new enrollees are not old, sick and therefore more expensive customers…
theGRIO REPORT – Clinton aides aren’t saying why publicly, but there is one obvious reason: preventing the emergence of another Barack Obama…
theGRIO REPORT – Obama administration officials say the website HealthCare.gov is gradually improving and will meet President Obama’s goal of having a site that works for the majority of users by December 1…
theGRIO REPORT – The landmark deal is essentially a six-month testing period while the two sides try to reach a more permanent agreement to halt parts of Iran’s nuclear program…