By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The August 6th Fox News-sponsored, two-tiered debate of the GOP presidential primary candidates has shown anew the Republican Party’s...
Robert Draper, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE WASHINGTON (The New York Times Magazine) — Last Friday, during a speech before a virtually all-black audience at...
Philip Rucker, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said Saturday that fellow presidential candidate Donald Trump’s derogatory commentary has begun inflicting...
Amy Chozick, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times) — For months, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been telling crowds, the news media,...
Sergio Bustos and Kelli Kennedy, ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush went into historically Democratic territory Friday to tell...
Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — More than 50 individuals and entities have shelled out at least $1 million...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist During the last seven years we’ve seen our nation go from an economically challenged state of affairs to one...
John Wagner, THE WASHINGTON POST NEW ORLEANS (The Washington Post) — Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders made his first major outreach to the African American community this...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “You must register. You must vote. You must learn, so your choice advances your interest and the interest of...
Igor Bobic, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Huffington Post) — Rick Perry stepped up to the lectern and paused. The former Texas governor scanned the...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In March of 2007, I wrote a column under the headline: “Obama Drama.” It began, “Will the euphoria sweeping through...
Lawrence Wittner, Time Magazine via HISTORY NEWS NETWORK WASHINGTON (TIME) — The recent announcement by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, an avowed “democratic socialist,” that...
Keli Goff, The Daily Beast (The Daily Beast) — If Republicans really care about winning in 2016, then they may want to pay more...
Anne Flaherty, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Oh, how times have changed since the days of punch card ballots and hanging chads. Come 2016 when...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist How can you tell when a politician is lying? When he moves his lips. Though originally intended as a...
Ben Terris, THE WASHINGTON POST DETROIT (The Washington Post) — Ben Carson had just started a stump speech to his staff, the one about freedom,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Who can I turn to, when nobody needs me? My heart wants to know, and so I must go where destiny...
Philip Elliot and Brendan Farrington, ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI (AP) — Hoping to turn his relative youth into a benefit, Sen. Marco Rubio entered the presidential race...
David Jackson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—Hillary Clinton will announce her presidential candidacy on Sunday, seeking to become the first woman in history to win...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The experiment that featured a Black man in the White house is on the downside now. Folks in the Obama...
Catalina Camia, USA TODAY LYNCHBURG, Va. (USA Today)—Sen. Ted Cruz kicked off the first major Republican presidential campaign of the 2016 election, vowing Monday to...
By Charles D. Ellison Special to the NNPA from The Philadelphia Tribune (NNPA)—There are now five presidential battleground states in 2016 that could be heavily...
Julie Pace, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — In 2002, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cast a vote in favor of the Iraq war that would...
Steve Peoples, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — He insists he could win, but Mitt Romney has stepped out of the 2016 presidential contest in favor...
Adam Edelman, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (New York Daily News)—Even Hillary is finally ready for Hillary it seems. Hillary Clinton will “100%” run for...