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HUFFINGTON POST, September 14, 2011--Rachel Maddow said she knew who the "clear loser" of Monday's GOP presidential debate was: a 30-year-old sick man with no health insurance. As Maddow put it, th

THINK PROGRESS, September 14, 2011—The heartbreaking story of Kent Snyder, the brains behind Ron Paul’s innovative online strategy during the 2008 presidential campaign has new significance in light o

THINK PROGRESS, September 14, 2011 — President Obama won Pennsylvania by more than 10 percentage points in 2008, and Democrats have won the state in every single presidential election for the last two

RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, September 14, 2011-- In 2008, President Obama won Pennsylvania by more than 10 points. That gave him 21 electoral votes out of the 270 needed to win the presidency. Republica

NEW YORK TIMES, September 14, 2011—Laughter is regularly promoted as a source of health and well being, but it has been hard to pin down exactly why laughing until it hurts feels so good. The answe

HUFFINGTON POST, September 14, 2011 -- When CNN's Wolf Blitzer pressed Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) over what he would do if a 30-year-old uninsured man suddenly slipped into a coma and needed care, he did

HUFFINGTON POST, September 12, 2011--A bit of a startling moment happened near the end of Monday night's CNN debate when a hypothetical question was posed to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). "What do you t

Perfect song by visionary director Spike Lee in tribute to the heroism of the FDNY, "our bravest" and to all New York.

POLITICO, September 11, 2011--In 1972, Barbara Jordan became the first African-American woman elected to Congress from the South. This week, 15 years after her death, she will become the first African

THE DAILY SHOW, September 8, 2011--"The Daily Show" schedule prevented Jon Stewart from commenting on Wednesday night's GOP Presidential debate, but he was still ready with some material on frontrunn

AUGUST 24, 2011--Farrah Gray got his start selling hand-painted rocks. Growing up in inner-city Chicago in the 1980s, Gray grew accustomed to days "when the only thing in our refrigerator was the ligh

HUFFINGTON POST, September 6, 2011 -– And so here we go: a gloomy campaign for a gloomy era, a political war framed by the combatants as an Armageddon-style struggle between the Ungodly and the Irrati

HUFFINGTON POST, September 6, 2011 -- Inspiring leaders in America come in all shapes, sizes, colors and creeds, and in all walks of life and public endeavor. Harry E. Johnson Sr. -- a big man (6'2

CNN, September 3, 2011--Celebrated poet and author Maya Angelou continued her criticism of the inscription etched on the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, saying an edit of the civil rights le

HUFFINGTON POST, September 1, 2011--A fired up Al Sharpton angrily criticized John Boehner for rejecting President Obama's request to address Congress next Wednesday. Sharpton spent two segments of

NEW YORK TIMES, September 2, 2011—Venus Williams wore a lacy white short-sleeve top, blue jeans and sandals. Her hair fell in soft curls past her shoulders, her dangly silver-dollar-size earrings shim

NEW YORK TIMES, September 2, 2011—It often starts out as an uncomfortable feeling in the eyes and mouth. Patients say their eyes are dry and red, even though they are using eye drops. Often too, they

THINK PROGRESS, September 1, 2011--Thousands of unmarried couples who are living together in Florida may be surprised to learn that they are actually breaking the law. Under outdated and rarely enforc

WASHINGTON, August 30, 2011 -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is planning an exhibit with Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to explore the third president's hist

NEW YORK TIMES, August 31, 2011--Rachel Figueroa-Levin has a dog, three cats, five fish, a snake, a turtle, a parakeet, a gecko (“like the Geico lizard,” she explained) and two sugar gliders (picture

THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, August 30, 2011--MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry marked the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a searing monologue about what she saw as the country's failure to learn fr

The National September 11 Memorial at Ground Zero will open this September 11th, the tenth anniversary of the attacks. Architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker's design for the m

THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, August 26, 2011--Rachel Maddow shows how wealthy Texans have been able to manipulate the system for their own gain against the interests of ordinary Texas residents. Say y

By JOHN LEWIS, NEW YORK TIMES, August 27, 2011—As we celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, we reflect on the life and legacy of this great man. But recent legislation on voting reminds us tha

NEW YORK TIMES, August 26, 2011--The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was to be dedicated on the National Mall on Sunday — exactly 56 years after the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi and 48 years a