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theGRIO REPORT – A fiery President Obama pointedly urged Congress to pass gun control legislation in a speech Thursday, repeatedly referring to the shooting of 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut in December, and declaring, ‘I haven’t forgotten those kids’…
theGRIO REPORT – Advocates of gay marriage appear to have made gains both at the U.S. Supreme Court and in Congress this week, as the court’s justices hinted in oral arguments in two different cases this week they would side with same-sex marriage advocates..
ANALYSIS – As the Supreme Court considers two cases on gay marriage, it’s clear Obama’s words profoundly changed the gay marriage debate…
theGRIO REPORT – The strong momentum early this year around new gun control laws, spurred by the mass shooting in Newtown and a spate of murders in Chicago, has stalled on Capitol Hill…
PRO PUBLICA – When the NAACP began challenging Jim Crow laws across the South, it knew that, in the battle for public opinion, the particular plaintiffs mattered as much as the facts of the case…
theGRIO REPORT – Over the weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference, it was at times difficult to tell the GOP is reeling from two straight presidential defeats…
ANALYSIS – Five months after their second straight electoral drubbing, leading Republicans remain reluctant to articulate what the party must change in order to win presidential elections in the future…
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Christie has been asked to apologize for referring to the first black female leader of the state Assembly by race and gender, not by name, during a church-hosted meeting…
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — As the GOP struggles to broaden its appeal, the head of the American Conservative Union declared Thursday that the Republican Party is not a home for everyone…
ANALYSIS – The inclusion of repeal in the House budget illustrates a broader problem for the GOP: a lack of vision on many major issues…
OPINION – Yet Sandberg contends, and rightly so, that this handful of women (4 percent of Fortune 500 companies) isn’t enough, especially when women represent nearly half of the current workforce…
OPINION -This year’s Supreme Court docket could dramatically alter racial policy in America, with cases that could invalidate two key achievements of the civil rights movement: The Voting Rights Act and affirmative action…
ANALYSIS – At first glance, President Obama’s new initiative to court congressional Republicans over lunches, dinners and private phone calls seems fruitless…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Shifting course in the face of political gridlock, President Barack Obama is making rare overtures to rank-and-file Republicans, inviting GOP senators to dinner Wednesday, planning visits to Capitol Hill and working the phones with lawmakers.
ANALYSIS – Five months after Election Day, the Republicans are still grappling with how they should reorient their party to win presidential elections in the future…
theGRIO REPORT – Every since Patrick Gaspard joined the Obama presidential campaign as political director in 2008, the 45 year-old New York fixer has been known for working long hours and keeping a low profile…
theGRIO REPORT – Rep. John Lewis will once again be in the lead March 3, in the annual commemoration of that pivotal walk…
OPINION – The nation’s first black president says race still matters, while the Supreme Court is effectively suggesting it does not. And on this issue, the Court, not the president, is the decider…
OPINION – The back and forth between the president and Republicans over the $85 billion in cuts due to go into effect on March 1 has obscured the new reality of Washington…
ANALYSIS – The drama around the $85 billion in federal government cuts due to start on March 1, known as the sequester, centers around one fundamental question: how much has President Obama’s victory in November changed the nation’s political dynamics on fiscal issues?…