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Bernie Sanders called for all rape accusations on college campuses to be handled through law enforcement, a controversial stance that puts him at odds with many advocates. Decrying rape and sexual assault on campuses as an “epidemic,” he said schools must not try to handle the issue internally. “Rape and assault is rape or assault…
Mary Brigid McManamon is a constitutional law professor at Widener University’s Delaware Law School. Donald Trump is actually right about something: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) is not a natural-born citizen and therefore is not eligible to be president or vice president of the United States. The Constitution provides that “No person except a natural born…
Microsoft officially abandoned old versions of Internet Explorer today, and developers are celebrating with memes and baked goods. The decision was likely made to encourage people to switch to Edge, Microsoft’s latest browser, which the company launched in November. Microsoft will continue to support Internet Explorer 11, but will not provide security updates or technical support for users of IE 8, 9…
Paul Graham is Still Asking to be Eaten An Obviously Critical Response to “Economic Inequality” by Paul Graham robotorgy.tumblr.com I’ve been asked by a bunch of people today to comment on this essay “Economic Inequality,”penned by self-described “essayist” Paul Graham, the subject of a poem I recently wrote entitled, “Paul Graham is Asking to be…
By now, you may have heard that the odds of a $2 Powerball ticket winning the grand prize, which is likely to be around $1.3 billion by the time of the next drawing on Wednesday, are 292.1 million-to-1. State lotteries – 44 states participate in the Powerball game – generate revenue by exploiting various features of…
The lady had dropped her napkin. More accurately, she had hurled it to the floor in a fit of disillusionment, her small protest against the slow creep of mediocrity and missed cues during a four-hour dinner at Per Se that would cost the four of us close to $3,000. Some time later, a passing server…
The New York Times said Tuesday that Jim Rutenberg, chief political correspondent for the Sunday magazine, will become its media columnist, filling a role that has been vacant since the death of David Carr about a year ago. “Our hunt for David’s successor has been exhaustive, and we were privileged to have had extraordinary candidates…
Despite how efficiently Star Wars: The Force Awakens manipulates nostalgia, much of the success of the movie—now the highest-grossing film ever made—can be ascribed to what’s fresh about it. Fans seem to be most excited by the new characters Rey, Finn, Poe, and Kylo Ren, and the diverse faces in the young cast are being…
Until recently, alcohol, like energy-dense food, was viewed as fundamentally different from tobacco in the sense that a little of what you like is fine. This contrasted with no safe level for smoking. But the new health evidence underpinning the latest alcohol guidelines in the United Kingdom suggests that it may have much more in…
Several months ago, Jann Wenner, a founder of Rolling Stone magazine, received a call from the actor Sean Penn. Mr. Penn, Mr. Wenner said in an interview on Sunday, wanted to discuss something important. But he did not want to speak openly over the phone, so the two began to speak elliptically about a potential…