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The Gamergate controversy is causing even more problems — this time with two panels at next year’s SXSW festival. Earlier today, activist and programmer Randi Harper tweeted that the organizers of SXSW had canceled a panel called “Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games,” presented by Harper, IBM Watson interaction designer Caroline Sinders, and writer Katherine Cross. The reason?…
Last Thursday, the nation watched with a mix of amusement and horror as the House Benghazi committee spent 11 hours grilling Hillary Clinton on a bizarre farrago of issues, many of which bore only tangential connection to the Benghazi attack. Over the past few weeks, the political narrative seems to have shifted from “Clinton in trouble” to…
During a town hall held and broadcast by NBC’s Today, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that he had a life full of adversity, because he only ever got a million dollar loan from his father. An audience member asked Trump if at any point in his life, anybody had ever told him ‘no.’ “Oh, many times,” he…
Jeb Bush joins the two former presidents in his family, George W. and their father, George H.W. | Associated Press Bush family gathers to rescue Jeb His famous family rallies around to attempt to revive his flagging campaign. By Eli Stokols 10/26/15 05:11 AM EDT HOUSTON — This closed-door summit for Jeb Bush’s richest donors…
SXSW has canceled two panels on its 2016 schedule related to the culture surrounding video games after they were met with “numerous threats of on-site violence,” according to the festival. The canceled panels, “SavePoint: A Discussion on the Gaming Community” and “Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games,” both related to the social climate of…
Welcome back to Restaurant Confessionals, where we talk to the unheard voices of the restaurant industry from both the front-of-house (FOH) and back-of-house (BOH) about what really goes on behind the scenes at your favorite establishments. It’s pretty amazing how often this will happen, but you know it’s an online date when someone will come…
A turning point for POLITICO Director of Operations Kara Kearns’s career took place Sept. 10, 2001, the last day of her junior-year residency at MSNBC. “On the morning of Sept. 11, I was in my car with every possession of mine in my trunk,” she said. “I was driving home because I had to start school in a…
extra_image: The outpouring of love that exploded when I Facebooked about Anita Sarko’s suicide the other day was so astounding, I bet it would have saved her life if she’d been around to witness it. The truth is, Anita had been a ground-breaking DJ and feisty writer (including for Paper back in the day), but…
Just in time for Halloween, here’s another vermin-eats-food-themed costume to take the wind out of pizza rat’s sails. Redditor connierubirosa has snapped what they deem the “most New York Photo” they’ve ever taken, words likely uttered by other notable urban life photographers. Hey look—it’s a pigeon with a bagel around its shoulders! The story of…
In March 2000, the financial weekly Barron’s published an infamous study under the headline “Burning Up.” It focused on scores of unprofitable Internet companies, specifically analyzing their “burn rates”—their pace of cash consumption until there’s nothing left–and presciently predicted the ugly result when capital raising turned difficult. The screen turned up then-prominent and now-forgotten gems,…