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While there have been two national elections since the Citizens United ruling upended campaign finance law in the U.S., it looks like the 2016 campaign will be remembered as America’s first truly post-CU election. Not just in terms of how the candidates are financing themselves, but with regard to what voters care about, too. On the Democratic side, for example,…
If it weren’t so sad, this bollocks would have made my day. https://t.co/UHAg2pMTxL pic.twitter.com/ruOfIjr3eh — Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) February 11, 2016 It’s best to try to ignore tabloids if possible, but every now and then, it’s important to remember the intense scrutiny and unnecessary pressure that they place upon actors — especially women actors, and…
Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. Photo by Mary Hautman It’s no secret that Williamsburg’s storefront rents are some of the priciest in the borough, but a new report now reveals they are also some of the priciest in the country. The ever-changing commercial strip of Bedford Avenue is, along with Fulton Mall and Court Street in…
Photo The Cima Dome area of the Mojave National Preserve. President Obama is granting national monument status to nearly 1.8 million acres of California desert that would link existing protected lands like this one. Credit David Danelski/The Press-Enterprise, via Associated Press LOS ANGELES — President Obama plans on Friday to designate three new national monuments…
Civil rights icon John Lewis told reporters that he never encountered Bernie Sanders when the Vermont senator was working with Lewis’ Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. Because he made his remarks at a press conference announcing the Congressional Black Caucus PAC’s endorsement of Sanders’ opponent, Hillary Clinton, Lewis’ comments can be seen…
Remember the vicious cycle that threatened the entire European banking sector in 2012? It went something like this: over indebted sovereigns depended on domestic banks to buy their debt, but when yields on that debt spiked, the banks took a hit, inhibiting their ability to fund the sovereign, whose yields would then rise some more,…
Tinder has come to signify everything that is right, and wrong, with modern dating culture. Yep, you get good volume, but where’s the longevity? Well, despite shaping many fist-shaking headlines recently, turns out most of the world is actually looking for more than just face roulette. London-based Badoo is the top dating app across 21 of the world’s biggest…
The R-rated Deadpool film was released today, and surprise! It’s worth seeing. The film spent a significant amount of time in the show business version of development hell, and it took someone leaking early test footage before the movie itself was given a green light and a budget. So who the hell leaked it? “I’ve been…
©Joe Waldron Save money into my pension? I’d rather blow it on a holiday. This is the typical response of a millennial — marketing shorthand for a 20-something — when you ask them about financial planning. More On this story On this topic IN Personal Finance For the generation that grew up in the Noughties,…
The betting markets now say that the most likely Republican nominee for president is a man who mocks women, insults Latinos, endorses war crimes like torture, denounces party icons and favors barring people from the United States based on their religion. He’s less a true-believer conservative than an opportunist, though, for he has supported single-payer…