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Obama forgot lessons of 2008 revolution

You know how desperate President Barack Obama is—as he contemplates his accomplishments going down the drain at the hands of a man he has total contempt for—when he is willing to do something so against his nature. He tried to persuade Donald Trump. We saw that unicorn glimpsed only fleetingly in the last eight years: […]

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Democrats screwed up by ignoring a call for different

We geniuses in the news media spent only the last month telling you how Donald Trump was losing this election. We spent the last year telling you how the Republican Party was unraveling. And here we are, with the Democrats in tatters. You might want to think twice about our Oscar and Super Bowl predictions. […]

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SHEPARD: An opportunity to develop a new generation of leaders

Holcomb declared his ambition to “start moving toward taking Indiana to the next level” and, the not-for-profit being created for transition and inauguration tasks is called Next Level Indiana Inc. A central strategy in achieving this ambition should include empowering cadres of young trailblazers.

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Police violence: American epidemic, American consent

Another set of black men killed by the police—one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, another in Charlotte, North Carolina. Another television cycle in which the pornography of black death, pain and anguish are exploited for visual sensation and ratings gold. And yes, another moment of mistakenly focusing on individual cases and individual motives and individual protests instead […]

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Our presidential predicament this election season

There is no point denying or sugar-coating the plain fact that the voters this election year face a choice between two of the worst candidates in living memory. A professor at Morgan State University summarized the situation by saying that the debates may enable voters to decide which is the “less insufferable” candidate to be […]

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All the catty talk is coming from Trump Tower

Let’s stop being so hard on Donald Trump. He has done us an enormous public service. After this down-and-dirty battle of the sexes, we will never look at gender in politics the same way. For centuries, women were seen as unfit to hold public office. Ambition, power and business were the province of men. Unlike […]

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