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HUFFINGTON POST, September 15, 2012 -- There's a new Obama in town. Jay Pharoah debuted his POTUS impression on Saturday night's SNL season premiere, replacing Fred Armisen in the role. In the o

THE GRIOT, September 11, 2012 -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday night approved a resolution that will move the bust of Frederick Douglass to the Capitol, making him only the third African

THE GRIOT, September 13, 2012 — “Saturday Night Live” has elected a new Barack Obama: Jay Pharoah will take over the plum role of impersonating the president. “SNL” creator and executive producer

HUFFINGTON POST, September 12, 2012 -- As Serena sat in the same chair that she occupied shortly before her trip to Wimbledon, the 2012 U.S. Open champion gave Jimmy Fallon credit on Monday night for

GREED AND DEBT: THE TRUE STORY OF MITT ROMNEY AND BAIN CAPITAL by Matt Taibbi, ROLLING STONE, September 2012. Here's how Romney would go about "liberating" a company: A private equity firm like B

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 -- Amazing time lapse photography--watch the new World Trade Center rise from the ashes.

ROLLING STONE, September 2012 -- Everyone knows that he is fantastically rich, having scored great success, the legend goes, as a "turnaround specialist," a shrewd financial operator who revived morib

HUFFINGTON POST, September 11, 2012 -- MSNBC reached another historic milestone after becoming the most-watched cable news network during the week of the Democratic National Convention. The network

By Jonathan Chait, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, September 10, 2012 -- Mitt Romney made some news when he appeared on Meet the Press yesterday and said he intended to reform the health-care system to allow peopl

TALKING POINTS MEMO, September 19, 2012 -- In a Sunday interview, Mitt Romney spoke out for a popular provision in the Affordable Care Act that guarantees coverage for people with preexisting conditio

HUFFINGTON POST, September 9, 2012 — Finally tested, even trailing, at the U.S. Open, Serena Williams turned things around just in time. Two points from defeat, Williams suddenly regained her compo

THINK PROGRESS -- On September 8, 2011 — one year ago today — President Obama laid out a series of policy proposals known collectively as the American Jobs Act. The plan included stimulus spending in

ALTERNET, September 3, 2012 -- It's a day before the Democratic National Convention and Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry has packed her bags in preparation for what will likely be the turning point of the 201

By David Blight, NEW YORK TIMES, September 7, 2012 -- SUPPRESSING the black vote is a very old story in America, and it has never been just a Southern thing. In 1840, and again in 1841, the former

POLITIFACT, September 6, 2012 -- During his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., President Barack Obama touted recent growth in manufacturing jobs. "After a

POLITIFACT, September 6, 2012 -- Bill Clinton used his nominating address at the Democratic National Convention to respond to the Republican critiques leveled at President Barack Obama during the GOP’

HUFFINGTON POST, September 2, 2012 -- Melissa Harris-Perry erupted at a guest on her show Saturday morning during a discussion on welfare. Harris-Perry launched a discussion based on a new book tit

POLITIFACT, September 5, 2012 -- Are Democratic presidents better than Republican presidents at job creation? Former President Bill Clinton said so -- forcefully -- in his speech to the Democratic Nat

THINK PROGRESS, September 4, 2012 -- Recently, the Romney campaign has taken to telling voters that Obama “can’t tell you that you’re better off” now than four years ago. While the economic numbers su

By Joan Walsh, SALON, September 2, 2012 -- At first I thought the flap over Paul Ryan claiming he ran a marathon in under three hours was silly. (No, I’m not a runner.) Before I read his remarks to th

by Howard Fineman, HUFFINGTON POST, September 3, 2012 -- I know that 21st-century campaigns are about micro-targeting individual voters using social media and laser-casting of print, web and Facebook

HUFFINGTON POST, September 1, 2012 -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove th

HUFFINGTON POST, September 1, 2012 -- "I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed," Mitt Romney said in his acceptance speech. But, it turns out he didn’t always fee

HUFFINGTON POST, 2012 – Paul Ryan's campaign walked back comments the VP nominee made about running a marathon. "I had a two hour and fifty-something" marathon, Ryan said last week an interview. "I

POLITIFACT, August 31, 2012 -- In his speech accepting the Republican nomination for president, Mitt Romney repeated a charge he’s made before: that Obama has traveled the world apologizing for Americ