Tomorrow is Election Day in Alabama. The people of the state will either elect a man who is credibly accused of touching a 14-year-old while in his 30s, or another guy, who is not. It is expected to be very close. Great day! Love being alive.
A New York magazine profile, out Monday, of United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley goes to great lengths to portray her as a lady politician with lofty expectations—a future run for the presidency is all but assured, those close to her said—who manages President Trump, in part, by playing politics like a man.
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The White House press briefings have been a largely dull affair under Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Gone are the days of Sean Spicer’s red-faced eruptions. Or so we thought.
Silicon Valley had somewhat of a reckoning this year. The tech overlords finally had to face the music: their products and services aren’t as wholesome and life-changing as they preached them to be. Turns out, a bunch of white men didn’t anticipate issues that might impact their non-white-male users. Like sexual…
Donald Trump is facing a new round of opposition in his battle to persecute trans people by banning them from serving in the military.
Roy Moore has been accused of, among other things, initiating a sexual encounter with a 14-year old girl when he was in his 30s—which is what makes it particularly nauseating that a far-right group decided to send a preteen girl named Millie to interview Moore just days before the Alabama special election.
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When die-hard Republicans engage in the often fruitless exercise of soliciting black and minority voters to buck the stranglehold of the Democratic voting bloc and join the constantly shrinking tent of the Grand Old Party, they always resort to the same tactics. They declare themselves “the party of Lincoln” and…
Accurate figures on police shootings in America are notoriously tricky to come by, not in the least because the departments that would be implicated by that data often control its release. But a new report by Vice News published on Monday revealed the number of Americans who are shot by police officers is…
The Golden Globe nominations were announced today and, despite 2017 giving us a lot to celebrate in terms of marginalized voices and their ability to make successful films, the awards managed to leave women completely out of its Best Director category.
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On Monday morning, several of the women who have publicly accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct will call upon Congress to launch an investigation into the claims. According to a press release from Brave New Films, they will talk about allegations of Trump “groping, fondling, forcibly kissing, humiliating, and…
Before the 2008 economic recession hit, Prince George’s County was one of the wealthiest majority-black counties in America. After the U.S. housing market went into a death spiral, the Maryland county became one of the areas hit hardest by the subprime lending crisis. Between 2012 and 2013, P.G. County saw a 50…
Admitted sexual predator Donald Trump’s embrace of accused pedophile Roy Moore in Tuesday’s Alabama Senate race has entered its final stage, with a rambling, self-indulgent robocall that seems as much about fluffing the president’s ego as it does about getting votes for Moore.
In the wake of Al Franken’s resignation from the Senate over sexual misconduct allegations, three Democratic senators have called for Donald Trump to resign over the long list of women who have accused him of sexual harassment and assault.
New York Police have a male suspect in custody after an explosion Monday morning in the subways below the Port Authority bus terminal in midtown Manhattan, leaving four injured. Police arrested Ullah Akayed, 27, a Brooklyn resident who came to the U.S. seven years ago from Bangladesh, an NYPD spokesperson told…
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