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Brian Stelter gives his take on a new “litmus test” for likely Republican presidential candidates – whether or not they read The New York Times. Why the New York Times is a GOP campaign issue – CNN Video.
2016 presidential hopeful Jeb Bush loves hispanic culture. He was born in Texas, governed Florida, lived two years in Venezuela, speaks fluent spanish and married the Mexican-born Columba Bush. He basically might as well be spanish, right? Except he isn’t. He is super white. But on a 2009 voter-registration application, Bush indicated that he was Hispanic, baffling…
Photo of American military boots via Creative Commons. There’s increasing recognition these days of the widespread problems of sexual assault in the military. But how does that culture of sexual violence spread out from the military to impact civilians? A new report by an independent Colombian commission on violence reveals a troubling pattern: the report says…
Back in 1992, the late Senator Paul Tsongas, a serious man of great dignity, driven a little batty by Bill Clinton’s native abilities to be all things to all people, started parading around with a stuffed panda that he called “The Pander Bear.” It didn’t work. But if you want to see true pander bears…
BOULDER, Colo. — ONCE upon a time in America, baby boomers paid for college with the money they made from their summer jobs. Then, over the course of the next few decades, public funding for higher education was slashed. These radical cuts forced universities to raise tuition year after year, which in turn forced the…
A family-owned pizza shop in small-town Indiana has become one of the first businesses to publicly show support for the state’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act, by making sure everyone knows they would never, ever, ever — not in a million years! — agree to cater a same-sex wedding. Crystal O’Connor says her family’s restaurant,…
When Hillary Clinton ditched government email in favor of a secret, personal address, it wasn’t just an affront to Obama’s vaunted transparency agenda—security experts consulted by Gawker have laid out a litany of potential threats that may have exposed her email conversations to potential interception by hackers and foreign intelligence agencies. “It is almost certain…
Hillary Clinton told the world that the reason she exclusively used her personal email as Secretary of State because she “wanted the simplicity of using one device.” But thanks to a FOIA request, we now know that Clinton used multiple devices for email, including an iPad and a BlackBerry. She also mixed her personal emails…
Barney Frank (Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite) Barney Frank has a new autobiography out. He’s long been one of the nation’s most quotable politicians. And Washington lives in perpetual longing for intra-party conflict. So why has a critical revelation from Frank’s book, one that implicates the most powerful Democrat in the nation, been entirely expunged from…
Photo Gov. Mike Pence held a news conference to discuss the Religious Freedom Restoration Act at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis on Tuesday. “We want to make it clear that Hoosier hospitality is not a slogan but a way of life,” he said. Credit Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana said Tuesday…