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President Barack Obama, dedicating the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Saturday, said it would tell an American story, one of “suffering and delight, one of fear, but also of hope, of wandering in the wilderness, and then seeing, out on the horizon, a glimmer of the Promised Land.” Speaking to dignitaries and thousands of people watching from the National Mall, Obama said the museum would document the stories of Americans who are often overlooked in history books - “the president but also the slave, the industrialist but also the porter, the keeper of the status quo, but also the activist seeking to overthrow that status quo.” On a day rich in symbolism, under a gray sky that seemed to capture the ambiguity of the black American experience, Obama warned that the museum would not be a panacea for the nation's racial struggles.
Many remember that in 1984, Ronald Reagan defeated Walter Mondale in a 49-state landslide, but few recall that Reagan turned in a poor performance in their first debate. After his sluggish behavior in their initial encounter reignited concerns about the 73-year-old president, Roger Ailes was recruited to advise him.
Heavy machinery and construction workers are seen along a motorway stretch in Calais as work continues to build a wall to secure the approach to the city from migrants trying to reach Britain, Calais, France. - REUTERS The fuss over measures to prevent illegal migration seems as out of touch with popular sentiments as it is with political platforms championing these measures.
As government ethics lawyers who have, respectively, counseled the most recent Republican president and the most recent Democratic one, we have watched Donald Trump's campaign with increasing concern. We have come to believe a Trump presidency would be ethically compromised for the following reasons: Opacity.
Months have passed since the FBI took aim at encryption in the case of the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone. Once the dust settled, our country began to take a different look at the dangers of unprotected data.
Here on the High Plains, where the deer and the antelope once played, Denver's suburbs roam toward the Rockies' Front Range and the nature of today's polyglot politics is written in the local congressman's campaign schedule. One day last week, Republican Mike Coffman went from a Hispanic charter school in a strip mall, to another strip mall for lunch at an Ethiopian restaurant with leaders of the Ethiopian-American community, then to a meeting with the editor of the largest of two Korean-language newspapers serving more than 3,000 Korean-Americans in the metropolitan area.
Should we build a Latino Smithsonian museum? Some Hispanic politicians think so. Piggybacking on the attention garnered by the opening this weekend of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, they have renewed a push for the creation of a National Museum of the American Latino.
Is Bush 41 a backstabber? The Republican Party has carried his family throughout their entire lives. Now at the age of 92, is this what he has to offer a party that has so elevated he and his sons their entire lives? However, George H.W. Bush may have just accidentally sabotaged Hillary Clinton's presidential race.
Texas State Troopers patrol the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border on August 18 near McAllen, Texas. Securing the U.S.-Mexico border has become a major issue in the U.S. Presidential campaign, which is strange since Mexican migration to the U.S. is at net zero.
Supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump hold up T-shirts that read "Proud to be a basket of deplorables" during a campaign event in Washington, D.C. The phrase refers to a comment Hillary Clinton made about Trump backers. Readers have much to say about the presidential race.
Voters check in at a polling station on Super Tuesday in Austin, Texas on March 1. A federal appeals court in July ruled Texas strict voter ID law, passed in 2011, discriminates against minorities. A study confirms that in-person voter fraud, what voter ID is designed to prevent, just doesn't happen much at all.
The U.S. House Freedom Caucus has demonstrated once again why Congress is held in such low esteem by voters. In attempting to impeach the IRS commissioner over alleged "high crimes and misdemeanors," conservative Republicans chose political theater over the nation's needs.
Donald Trump would be toast as a presidential candidate if not for a perhaps the second worst candidate in U.S. history, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, seen here at a rally at University of North Carolina, in Greensboro, N.C., on Sept. 15. , 2016.
Let's stop with criticism of the candidates and look at what Donald Trump and his multiple wives and Hillary and Bill Clinton have ever done for this country - for you. Donald and his wives love to talk and shop.
After the attack in San Bernardino last December that killed 14 people and wounded 22 others, the FBI hired a private hacker to unlock the iPhone of one of the two dead terrorists. Perhaps the FBI learned some of Syed Rizwan Farook's evil secrets.
By Jack Bernard, a retired healthcare exec and the former Director of Health Planning for the State of Georgia. He was also on the Jasper County Board of Health and County Commission.
There's been lots of speculation about the fate of the Republican Party if Donald Trump loses. There's been less speculation, though recent polling suggests it may be in order, about the fate of the Democratic Party if Hillary Clinton loses.
Hillary Clinton is the worst kind of political animal, one who will exploit anything for political gain, distort facts and shift her positions at will for votes, significantly more than your garden-variety pandering politician.