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NAIROBI — You’ll forgive the global women’s rights movement while it catches its breath. “I’m shellshocked. I have no words. I don’t even know what to say,” said Lina Abirafeh, director of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, at Lebanese American University in Beirut. “I don’t see [Donald] Trump championing any women’s…
“Tonight I’m here to talk about Jews.” That’s how Kevin MacDonald, a 72-year-old former professor at California State University, Long Beach, prefaced a speech he gave to a crowd of about 200 people on Saturday night at a conference center in Washington D.C. He then went on a 25-minute anti-Semitic tirade as attendees — most decked out…
The chyron aired during a segment discussing President-elect Donald Trump’s transition and support from the alt-right. CNN saw swift backlash from the media and viewers over an onscreen message that aired on Monday’s The Lead With Jake Tapper. During a segment on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition, CNN’s Jim Sciutto spoke with two media correspondents about alt-right leader…
Donald Trump’s nominee for US attorney general has been accused of bringing criminal prosecutions against a pair of black officials in Alabama as retaliation for their roles in derailing his nomination to be a judge. The officials faced federal corruption charges in the southern district of Alabama, where Jeff Sessions was the top federal prosecutor,…
People are mostly shocked by this ‘Hail Trump’ video Image: Screengrab/the atlantic By Gianluca Mezzofiore2016-11-22 11:54:44 UTC A video published on The Atlantic that shows Richard B. Spencer — founder and ideologue of the “alt-right” movement — shouting “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory” has caused heated reaction on social media. Spencer’s salute to…
What do a comedy show, a newspaper, and a former political candidate have in common? In a stunning example of “punching down, not up,” this latest edition of Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live took a swipe at the recent news that Tinder added 37 new gender identity options to their dating app. In whole, the joke was: The dating app…
Trump’s contempt for women is astonishing. Decades of progress are now at stake Donald and Melania Trump walk with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Capitol Hill, Washington, 10th November, 2016 ©Molly Riley/AP/Press Association Images It was supposed to be a historic moment in American politics: the first woman elected to the presidency. Women took their…
Since the 80s, people have thought that women, as a unit, vote more liberally than men. While this is generally true, white women have a storied history of defying this trend, voting for Republican candidates against their own best interests and the interests of all women throughout the country. The 2016 presidential election results…
The myth of the bullied white outcast loner is helping fuel a fascist resurgence Fascism is back. Nazi propaganda is appearing on college campuses and in city centers, a Mussolini-quoting paramilitary group briefly formed to “protect” Trump rallies, the KKK is reforming, and all the while, the media glibly participates in a fascist rebrand, popularizing…
Steve Bannon, the man President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to be his chief strategist, expressed dismay at the number of tech execs who are immigrants from Asia. But Trump, who has pledged to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico to keep people out, has said he wants immigrants educated at Ivy League universities and therefore capable of…