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Politics Trump Accuses Clinton of Guiding Global Elite Against U.S. Working Class By NIRAJ CHOKSHIOCT. 13, 2016 close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Donald J. Trump spoke at a rally in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Thursday. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Donald J. Trump on Thursday accused Hillary Clinton of guiding a “global power…
Donald Trump during the first presidential debate at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016 in Hempstead, New York.Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images At the presidential debate on Sunday night, co-moderator Anderson Cooper spent a lot of time trying to get Donald Trump to answer a simple question: Had he ever—as he boasted in the…
Former Miss Arizona Tasha Dixon claimed Donald Trump came “waltzing in” while contestants were nude or half-nude as they changed into bikinis. Trump owned the Miss USA pageant when Dixon was a contestant in 2001. (Reuters) Updated with response from Trump campaign. On an April 11, 2005, airing of “The Howard Stern Show,” Donald Trump…
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg/Getty Images In December 2005, PEOPLE writer Natasha Stoynoff went to Mar-a-Lago to interview Donald and Melania Trump. What she says happened next left her badly shaken. Reached for comment, a spokeswoman for Trump said, “This never happened. There is no merit or veracity to this fabricated story.” What follows is Stoynoff’s account. “Just…
1. On Tuesday, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight tweeted out a graphic showing the current split between male and female voters in the election. And here’s if just dudes voted. — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) ID: 9783029 According to Silver, if only women voted, Hillary Clinton would win by a landslide. However, if only men voted, Donald…
What if the New York City subway map paid homage to some of the city’s great women? (Hover over the map to magnify.) Cartography by Molly Roy, from “Nonstop Metropolis,” by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. Subway Route Symbols ® Metropolitan Transportation Authority “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” is a song James Brown recorded in…
Politics Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately close story-meta-footer close story-meta Video ‘His Hands Were All Over Me’ Jessica Leeds, a businesswoman at a paper company, was sitting next to Donald J. Trump on a flight to New York in the early 1980s. She told The Times that he lifted the armrest and…
As polls show that Donald Trump would overwhelmingly win if only men were allowed to vote, the GOP nominee’s supporters have spawned a new Twitter hashtag: #repealthe19th. That’s a reference to the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The Twitter commentary began after Nate Silver of the FiveThirtyEight website published an article Tuesday looking at men’s and women’s…
At a pivotal moment when Asian Americans are fighting for visibility and facing gross misrepresentation in mainstream media, New York City’s Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) is seeking funding for its first-ever cultural exhibition, Chow: The Making of Chinese American Cuisine, which explores the history of a cuisine 170 years in the making as…
Hillary Clinton seemed smug, so there’s no way she can persuade undecided voters. This thought, a knee-jerk reaction rooted in my own subconscious sexism, immediately came to mind after I watched both U.S. presidential debates. It’s sexist to think a woman who’s worked in public service for 40 years, and answers every question with almost…