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In 2017, shortly after the next president is inaugurated, thousands of newly appointed federal officials will struggle with the same existential question: What do I wear to my first day of work? I understand their anxiety, having languished over wardrobe during eight years of federal service and pondered the fashion choices of my male colleagues…
Thanks to Affordable Care Act insurance reform, prescribed contraception must be covered by all insurance plans without a co-pay, meaning the majority of Americans now have access to primary forms of birth control—their “plan A” contraception. As nearly everyone who has ever had potentially procreative sex knows, however, the need for back-up is crucial to peace of mind, whether or…
The “most systemically dangerous bank in the world” is in grave trouble. Despite exclamations that there is “no need for additional capital” and that “Deutsche Bank is no Lehman” investors are fleeing the bank’s assets en masse as professionals pile in to buy counterparty risk protection. With the only thing standing between bank runs and…
Credit Photograph by Justin Sullivan / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (The Borowitz Report)—CNN launched an urgent manhunt Monday after Lester Holt, the moderator of the first Presidential debate of the 2016 general election, mysteriously vanished two minutes into the contest. Network officials became concerned after the two Presidential nominees, Donald J. Trump and…
Here at the Daily Dot—and around the web, really—it’s common to refer to “Twitter” as a unified whole. Twitter is freaking out over something. Twitter is roasting someone. Twitter is confused, overjoyed, outraged. But this ignores and even obscures the simple fact that Twitter has long been fractured into myriad cliques and cabals. There are…
Enlarge this image Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton go head-to-head Monday night in the first presidential debate. NPR’s politics team, with help from reporters and editors who cover national security, immigration, business, foreign policy and more, is live annotating the debate. Portions of the debate with added analysis are underlined in yellow, followed by context…
Towards the end of the first presidential debate Monday night, Hillary Clinton mentioned Donald Trump’s habit of publicly insulting women he finds unattractive. In response, he pointed out that the bitch deserved it. “This is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs,” Hillary said, pointing out that Trump also called a former…
Midway through the first presidential debate Monday night, Donald Trump seemingly confirmed he hasn’t paid federal income taxes because 1) he’s smart and 2) the government wouldn’t put it to good use—neither of which are defenses accepted by the IRS. “It’s politicians like Secretary Clinton that have caused this problem,” Trump said to Clinton Monday…
So far in this debate, Donald Trump has sniffled approximately 12,000 times, sipped a lot of water, and argued loudly with the lady next to him. On Twitter, Howard Dean says what we’re all thinking—he’s definitely on cocaine. YEEEEEOOOOOOAAAOOWOOW core-decorated Source: Howard Dean Just Accused Donald Trump of Being on Cocaine During the Debate
Ford has a message to Donald Trump: We’re not going anywhere. The automaker quickly shot down Donald Trump’s latest hyperbolic claim, made on Fox News Thursday, that Ford plans to “fire all its employees in the United States” as part of a plan to build a plant in Mexico. ‘; for (i = 0; i…