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Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images You may not remember Milo Yiannopoulos, the failed London tech entrepreneur who adopted a white-nationalist persona beloved by scores of 20-year-old white college bros convinced political correctness is the reason no one will sleep with them. If not, that’s understandable — his public visibility took a bit of a dive…
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” ‘Stay Away’: A ‘Never Trumper’ on Serving in the Trump Administration The ethics of accepting, or refusing, a political appointment from the president-elect Google Metadata Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Updated on November 16, 2016 On Tuesday, a week into the transition of power from Barack Obama to Donald…
New Balance shoe-owners shared images of themselves disposing of the brand in protest after the company’s vice president of public affairs said Donald Trump’s trade policies were a “move in the right direction.” (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) Last week, not even a full 24 hours after President-elect Donald Trump earned that title, a senior official…
Roughly 41 percent of winners from 48 HPD lotteries between 2013 and 2015, were between the ages of 25 and 34, and 48 percent were single, HPD numbers show.View Full Caption Shutterstock/Leonardo da NEW YORK CITY — Young, single New Yorkers were more likely to win affordable housing lotteries run by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development from 2013…
Donald Trump and Barack Obama. Win McNamee/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump celebrated his status as a Washington outsider during his campaign for the presidency, but his lack of familiarity with the US government appears to be coming into view as he transitions to the White House. During Trump’s private meeting with President Barack Obama on…
Can the presidential election result be blamed on failed algorithms? Facebook had taken the brunt of that claim in the days of shock following Donald Trump’s election. Then, on Monday, Google stumbled into the fray, and by the end of the day, it’s own mini-outrage produced a significant change in how Google does business. What’s…
close story-meta-footer Photo Columbia has suspended its wrestling program during an investigation into lewd text messages. Credit Khaled Sayed for The New York Times Columbia University’s wrestling team, which bills itself as the nation’s oldest intercollegiate program, has had its season suspended by the university while officials investigate text messages sent by team members that…
Editor’s note: Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with their new issue — go check it out. I write a column for the print edition of the magazine; here’s my latest. A few years back, around the time of the financial crisis, I remember hearing about a guy with a startup idea for a…
With President-elect Donald Trump vowing to deport thousands of people in the country illegally, Rep. Judy Chu on Tuesday urged the Obama administration to protect the names of “Dreamers,” people brought to the country illegally as children who applied for temporary status in the United States. Trump is expected to unwind the Deferred Action for Childhood…
/ .breakout.column-actions Ad blocking continues to freak out the entire media ecosystem. But god help me, it’s hard not to love the gnashing of teeth it’s causing throughout the publishing and advertising worlds right now. The level of bile flowing from furious media types continues to rise at the same rate as consumer ad-blocker use….