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Jane Biddick, Nicole Martin, Merchon Andersen Photo: Benedict Evans Last winter, in the weeks leading up to what would be a very long presidential-primary season, New York went to Iowa and New Hampshire to interview Republicans about their outlooks on the election. They opened up about their hopes—but especially about their fears. The biggest theme…
Blue Apron got approval to operate a food processing facility from the California Department of Public Health for the first time last month, despite having been packing and shipping boxes of fresh produce and raw fish, poultry, and meat in the state for over three years. The company’s Oct. 5 registration with the state health…
So polls can tell us where to look, but from there the media have to dig deeper. That hasn’t happened so much with one particular group this election season, which journalists have both obsessed over and widely mischaracterized, the white working-class. [CLIP]: TRISH REGAN, FOX NEWS: Donald Trump’s swift and seemingly unstoppable rise was boosted…
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, in a desperate, garbled shriek for the old world order, called a United States Democratic presidential candidate a “cunt” today on Twitter before deleting the tweet. His office briefly tried to claim he was hacked, then settled on the old “bad retweet” argument. Dallas News reports that agency spokesman Mark…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump did three rallies on Sunday, October 30. He said 27 false things: Las Vegas, Nevada 1. Falsely said, “We’re winning many national polls.” (Repeated at both rallies later in the day. At the time he spoke in Las Vegas, Trump was only leading in the Los Angeles Times tracking…
A Trump supporter wears a Hillary Clinton mask and prison jumpsuit at a campaign rally in Tempe, Arizona on Oct. 27, 2016. (Image via AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin). Donald Trump, a regurgitated wombat whose penchant for dishonesty is historically unprecedented—he made 37 false claims on Sunday alone—is now considered more honest and trustworthy than Hillary…
Donald Trump appraises Miss Universe contestants in 2009. Image via Associated Press. In an interview with local Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat, translated by The Telegraph, former Miss Finland Ninni Laaksonen became the twelfth woman to accuse Donald Trump, evil toddler and our Republican presidential nominee, of sexual assault. From The Telegraph: Miss Laaksonen said the incident…
In rural North Dakota, a small county and an insular religious sect are caught in a stand-off over a decaying piece of America’s atomic history. The long shadow cast by nuclear weapons and the Cold War is not as far in the past as we might like to think… Should you find yourself with time…
.entry-header They’re almost a web fixture: Those spammy-looking links at the end of news articles, with photos of former TV stars and headlines like “What she looks like now will amaze you!” But despite the fact that many readers—and news companies, for that matter—hate them, they’re probably not going away anytime soon. The reason for…
It’s been a year dominated by strong women, whose voices have rung throughout our halls of power, been heard louder than ever in our entertainment, and, of course, echoed madly off the canted walls within the Kafkaesque gauntlet that is our presidential election. Yes, 2016 was a watershed moment for women, who have entered what…