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They’re coming for you, Trump Don’t you just love the smell of Republican Civil War in the morning? Republican officials and leading figures in the party’s establishment are now preparing for the possibility of a brokered convention as Donald Trump continues sit atop the polls and the presidential race. Seriously, we just cummed all over…
Hey, Delaware, it’s a fine morning for a big headline: #DowDuPont is trending. Heads are spinning about what the mega-merger between Dow Chemical and DuPont means for the First State, but first, the facts: The new company’s name is DowDuPont. The merger will cost about $3 billion, but is projected to create about $30 billion of…
Also, Reince Priebus will be uninvited from my birthday party Doctor Ben Carson would like you all to know he is not one bit pleased about these murmurings that the GOP establishment is plotting to deny the nomination to Donald Trump — or to Ben Carson, which could totally still happen, he thinks. And by…
Kristen Valnicek stared at her computer in disbelief. She cupped her hands over her mouth and fell to her bedroom floor. “I can’t feel my body,” she wailed. Then she hopped up and started dancing. She looked back at the screen. “Oh my God, it’s real.” Someone with the username Andy, a fan she’d never…
If you’re a black Airbnb user that’s had a sneaking suspicion hosts are giving you the run-around when you try to book a rental, you might be on to something. A working paper (pdf) from three Harvard Business School researchers suggests that users with black names have more trouble booking rentals. While the company doesn’t…
Gym designers have rid locker rooms of the gnarly shower curtains, trading them in for sexy glass escape pods. They have made bathroom stalls ever more private. Comfy couch corners, Wi-Fi and lockers with built-in locks have gone from swank options to standard issue. “Everyone wants to get upgraded now,” said Rudy Fabiano, an architect…
One of the benefits of private property is that whoever owns it can charge other people to use it. This is called rent. If people want to use this particular property very badly—that is to say, it is in “high demand”—the owner can charge a lot of rent. This is called capitalism. But some owners…
HOW do you follow up on a phenomenon? At the end of its first series “Serial”, presented by Sarah Koenig and affiliated to “This American Life”, had become the most popular podcast in the world. It was the first to reach 5m downloads from iTunes, and each episode reached about 2.2m pairs of ears. The…
Despite the media scare stories, trigger warnings are not widely used by college professors across the country, according to a survey released in full on Tuesday. They’re not even widely demanded by students. And when they are used, the warnings address both liberal and conservative concerns. The nonscientific survey, conducted by the National Coalition Against Censorship,…
Following the critically acclaimed global smash hit X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer returns with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after…