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Poverty's Real Face and the First Lady's Book

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Farai Chideya
For Michelle Obama, What Is Wrong With Strong?

If the first lady feels she has to hide her strength to survive Beltway politics, then too bad for our culture, and too bad for us all, Farai Chideya writes at CNN.

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Rochelle Riley
Where's the Respect Our First Lady Deserves?

Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley writes that chances are, no one trying to portray Michelle Obama as an angry black woman has ever seen one.

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Charles M. Blow
Mitt Romney and the 'Bitter Politics of Envy'

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow says that if Romney wants to be president, he needs to understand that income inequality is a threat to this country and the middle class that made her great.

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Tim Tebow & The Football Gods

Discussions about Denver's celebrated Christian quarterback are rarely reasonable, rational or relative.

No Pardons For These Sisters

Both are already out on parole.

The Confab: What Poverty Looks Like

This week on the Confab: Join Washington reporter Cynthia Gordy as she chats with Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta and contributor Edward Wyckoff Williams about the real face of welfare, the first lady’s portrayal in a new book and the worst math lesson ever.

Occupy Movement Saves

A century-old church on its last legs gets help from the Occupy movement.

Remaking America

Blogging the Beltway: Talking tough love for Obama and reforming capitalism with Cornel West, Suze Orman and others.