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Story highlights Chris Christie says he disagrees with Pope Francis over U.S.-Cuba relations He says Pope Francis is infallible ‘on religious matters, not on political ones’ “I just think the Pope is wrong,” the New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate said Sunday in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”…
Far from destroying our democracy, he’s exposing all its phoniness and corruption in ways as serious as he is not. And changing it in the process. As the summer of Donald Trump came to its end — and the prospect of a springtime for Trump no longer seemed like a gag — the quest to…
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Influential tweeter Richard Dawkins, whose intellectual rigor never ceases to amaze, makes the very good, necessary, and important point that, in claiming his reassembled clock as an “invention,” Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Texas teenager arrested last week on suspicion of building a bomb, committed fraud. Advertisement All right, guy. H/T @keplyq. Contact the author of…
Drake unveiled his joint mixtape with Future, What a Time to Be Alive, Sunday on his OVO Sound radio show on Beats 1, which was followed by the album’s exclusive iTunes and Apple Music release. “It’s a little soundtrack for people that need it right now,” Drake said of the 11-track album. Sidebar Future: How Hip-Hop’s Paranoid Android Became a Robocroon…
Credit Netflix/Everett Barrier Status: ‘none’ The Netflix animated series “BoJack Horseman” is a comedy about an anthropomorphic talking horse of the same name. BoJack starred in a family sitcom in the eighties and nineties called “Horsin’ Around”—think “Charles in Charge” crossed with “Full House,” but with a horse—and now lives the dissipated life of a…
Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a gigantic overnight increase in the price of a 62-year-old drug that is the standard of care for treating a life-threatening parasitic infection. The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing immediately raised the price to…
It isn’t hard to see why nothing bad has ever quite touched Kevin Johnson, mayor of Sacramento, Calif., even as he’s authored a long series of lurid sex and corruption scandals, any one of which would have ended the career of a less fortunate man. Johnson is a youngish, attractive Democrat with a reputation as…
Every time I see that Samuel Johnson quote, I get a bit pissed off. You know the one, it’s the one that goes, “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” Well, I can safely say that London’s tired me out. I’ve not even made it halfway through this life and…
Well mommies, it happened. I learned what it’s like be a nursing mom and attend a conference with my baby. A tech conference (Dreamforce). In Moscone Center. In San Francisco. For two hours. Since I had been to Moscone Center and seen children present at other conferences, I figured it would not be a…