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The 2012 presidential race is slipping away from Republicans

The Republican Party remains in a state of chaos — facing the increasingly realistic possibility of the first “brokered” convention in more than fifty years. Mitt Romney — having won narrowly this weekend at CPAC and in Maine — is now turning his guns on Rick Santorum, whose resurgence last …

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Thoughts From Martha's Vineyard — Blacks, Whites and President Obama

Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts – Thursday night the Harvard University Department of African American Studies held an extraordinarily interesting event here with a wide diversity of speakers about the education gap between African-Americans and the broader white society. The question presented was “How can the persistent gap between whites and African-Americans …

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Gretchen's Take: I've had to dig deep like everyone else

Sometimes people look at public figures and think they haven’t had to struggle with adversity – that everything has always come easy. In my new book “Getting Real” I get very real about failures in my life from struggling as a fat kid to living with the guilt of giving …

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