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Michelle Obama has a strikingly successful record of fighting the obesity epidemic and improving nutrition — both symbolically and through legislation. Back in October, I talked to a bunch of food and nutrition policy wonks about the first lady’s influence on food issues. They offered near-unanimous praise: She planted a garden, waged snappy social media…
It’s been over a year since I started @thinkpiecebot, and it’s grown a LOT in the interim. The code is a huge, often unwieldy mess, there are over 100 formulas in it, and in the past couple of months the scope and the tone has gone through some… changes. Holy Shit, a Suit-Wearing Racist — Thinkpiece…
After WGN posted the photo on Facebook Monday, nearly three years after it was taken, it was “liked” more than 14,000 times in 48 hours.View Full Caption Facebook / Brendan Gardiner PORTAGE PARK — It was supposed to send a message. Brendan Gardiner dug out a parking spot with the intention of saving it for…
As the American public is being sold on the idea of the “Infobahn,” it is often suggested that the Internet is ushering in an age of enlightenment, that its structure is inherently leading to a kind of global consciousness raising. In particular, it was (and still is, in some circles) fashionable to suggest that the…
So now that we’re about to be in Donald Trump’s America, a few people have explained how GamerGate was the canary in the coal mine for the rise of the “alt-right”. (If you’re not familiar with this stuff, go read those articles. I’ll wait.) GamerGate did a lot of obvious damage — the chilling effect on free speech that…
James Dowson, a far-right political activist, ran a constellation of websites out of the United Kingdom. Credit Rex Features, via Associated Press The Patriot News Agency website popped up in July, soon after it became clear that Donald J. Trump would win the Republican presidential nomination, bearing a logo of a red, white and blue…
The grammar police on Saturday trolled President-elect Donald Trump for misspelling the word “unprecedented” as “unpresidented,” in a tweet about China taking a Navy drone in international waters. Good morning! The #WordOfTheDay is…not ‘unpresidented’. We don’t enter that word. That’s a new one. https://t.co/BJ45AtMNu4 — Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) December 17, 2016 Trump swiftly deleted the tweet…
close story-meta Times Insider shares historical insights from The New York Times. Photo In 1960, copy desks were shaped like horseshoes, with editors seated around the rim and their supervisors in the slot in the middle. Desks have changed, but the roles of the rim and the slot remain. Credit The New York Times Times…
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This article includes no major spoilers for Rogue One.The idea that Rogue One is groundbreakingly feminist has always been pretty bizarre. Jyn Erso’s protagonist status is equal to Rey’s in The Force Awakens, and besides: Every other main character is a man. While Rogue One was being promoted (and protested) as a female-led sci-fi blockbuster, its trailers remained…