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author-info-mob-wrapGOP Debate: The Republican Party Has No Plans to Fix Anything hide-title left-content-mobi The night was, beyond anything else, predictable. There were some fireworks — Megyn Kelly demanding Donald Trump defend his misogyny (“I’m not politically correct”), Chris Christie and Rand Paul in a spirited debate about whether and how to conduct surveillance on the…
The unlikely frontrunner’s unpredictability and refusal to bow to party taboos is exactly why he will survive criticism about his first-debate performance. Bryan Snyder / Reuters We noticed that you have an AD BLOCKER ENABLED Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now…
paging_filter Could it be? An old-fashioned newspaper war, but one fought in the digital trenches? Neither venerable news institution wants to call it a head-to-head battle, but the numbers are beginning to tell us otherwise. Meanwhile, we can only begin to speculate about the business implications of the numbers we see. Just now, The New…
Where are all the ladies? (Photo courtesy of Lionsgate) The woman on America’s silver screen is young. She is white. She is straight. And she is vastly outnumbered by men. From 2007 to 2014, women played a mere 30.2 percent of all speaking or named characters in the 700 biggest box office hits, according to a…
If you look at any WordPress plugin of significant size, you’ll probably find most of them boot the same way. From BuddyPress, to PressForward, to JetPack, all of these boot the same way: with singletons. JetPack in particular is interesting, as many of its modules are also singletons themselves. It’s an extremely common pattern in…
Photo Credit Brian Rea When a total stranger kissed me under the artificial lights of an airplane cabin somewhere above international waters, my first thought was of the Orthodox woman sitting to my left. I hoped she was asleep. It was a 12-hour flight from Tel Aviv to Newark, and I wanted to nap too,…
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of Adam Sandler is for good men to do nothing,” Burke once said. Leaked emails from Sony show just how many men and women did nothing while Pixels, one of the worst movies of the year, was in production. They have blood on their hands. How does something…
######## BEGIN VOLUME VIDEO ######## ######## END VOLUME VIDEO ######## Donald Trump is running for president. But his performance in last night’s debate shows that he clearly hasn’t forgotten his other job as America’s imaginary boss, teaching the nation how to get ahead in the workplace. When Fox News’s Megyn Kelly asked Trump a question about…
Mike Huckabee suggested he would defy the Supreme Court in order to ban abortion, because it’s “not the Supreme Being,” while Marco Rubio denied that he supports abortion rights for rape and incest victims, and Scott Walker defended his opposition to abortion when the mother’s life is at risk. Ben Carson came out for a…
There will tweets. There will be liveblogs. There will be thinkpieces. It’s the GOP debate tonight—and everyone on the Internet will have a whole lot to say. One more way to weigh in: The Washington Post is inviting anyone on the Internet to annotate the numbers, the zingers, the truths, and the lies that make their…