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theGRIO REPORT – In his much-anticipated speech marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, President Obama largely avoided the subject of race…
OPINION – The America that convenes on the Mall in 2013 to celebrate and commemorate Dr. King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is a very different America from the one Dr. King spoke to in August, 1963…
OPINION – If 1963 was a beginning, where does American stand a half century along the journey?…
ANALYSIS – As he will make remarks Wednesday commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, this second-term Obama has now emerged in full…
ANALYSIS – The 76-year-old is largely out of politics now, but when he emerges, it’s almost always to lecture the party that once heavily promoted him…
ANALYSIS – President Obama won’t be giving his version of the “I Have a Dream” speech next Wednesday at the anniversary of the March on Washington…
theGRIO REPORT – President Obama, in an interview with CNN, praised his daughters, while acknowledging they want to spend less time with him than ever now that they are getting older…
theGRIO REPORT – President Obama wants to fundamentally change American higher education, creating effectively a Consumer Reports for colleges that would rank them on quality and then making it cheaper for students to attend schools the government deems the most effective at educating and training students…
ANALYSIS – A number of prominent Democrats of all races are urging Clinton to run..
OPINION – While I like the idea of repeal, I’m realistic enough to realize it likely won’t happen…
theGRIO REPORT – This was the last chance for Republicans to truly block the health care law, and they will not succeed…
Booker calls war on drugs ‘tremendous failure,’ urges end of medical marijuana producer prosecutions
theGRIO REPORT – Cory Booker, the likely next U.S. senator from New Jersey, blasted the war on drugs and the Obama administration’s prosecution of people who grow medical marijuana in a series of Twitter posts over the weekend…
ANALYSIS – Bill de Blasio is running a very unconventional campaign with the kind of direct racial appeals that are traditionally the domain of only minority candidates…
ANALYSIS – The controversies around Booker’s connections to Wall Street and Silicon Valley and his occasional breaks from liberal orthodoxy have in some ways obscured the historic achievement he is nearing…
ANALYSIS – Booker has bungled what appeared to be a perfect coronation, and one for which he waited almost a decade…
theGRIO REPORT – Hillary Clinton’s latest speech illustrates how an issue that had been largely been confided to outside liberal activists has now become one of the central causes of key Democratic leaders…
theGRIO REPORT – Eric Holder will announce in a speech today that the Department of Justice will no longer charge many non-violent drug offenders with crimes that trigger mandatory minimum sentences…
theGRIO REPORT – When President Obama was first asked about controversial National Security agencies programs two months ago, he struck a defiant tone…
ANALYSIS – The address President Obama delivers later this month at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington could be one of the most important of his presidency, as it ties together two subjects that have defined his tenure in office, the economy and race…
ANALYSIS – If President Obama picks Larry Summers as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, as he is considering, the president and his advisers should communicate a very compelling case explaining why they chose someone with such obvious negatives…