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Peter Thiel is a billionaire serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and the most prominent supporter of President Trump in Silicon Valley. And in a world where money is power, Thiel is not afraid to wield his power. On Oct. 28, 2015, several months before Thiel was revealed to be the funder of a lawsuit that bankrupted…
The White House and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are at odds over who should lead the watchdog agency as its acting director: its former director’s chief of staff, Leandra English, or White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, who has called the bureau “a sick joke.” (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) As a Republican congressman, Mick…
In December of 2006, I embarked on my ninth USO Tour to entertain our troops, my eighth to the Middle East since the 9/11 attacks. My father served in Vietnam and my then-boyfriend (and now husband, Chris) is a pilot in the Air Force, so bringing a ‘little piece of home’ to servicemembers stationed far away from their…
MONTGOMERY, AL—Waving off the current allegations against him as vicious attempts to sabotage his election bid, Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore told reporters Monday that the women accusing him of pedophilia were only doing so now because “shifting sociocultural norms have created an environment in which assault allegations are taken seriously.” “These women have had…
AL Senate candidate Roy Moore/AP Right–wing conspiracy peddler Jack Posobiec—the guy who riled up his followers over “Pizzagate” and nearly got someone killed—appears to have gotten away with doxing AL Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore’s accuser. On Friday, Posobiec tweeted a photo of Leigh Corfman, who accused Moore of sexually assaulting her in 1979 when…
We still love you even when you are wrong. GATHER, ALL YE LOVERS OF LIBERTY! Hillary Democrats, Bernie Democrats, liberals who don’t like party labels because “ugh” … hey, #NeverTrump Republicans, WHO LET YOU IN HERE? OK fine, we’ll let you stay. Everyone say hi to Bill Kristol, hiiiiiiiiii Bill Kristol! We need to have…
I tweeted what was intended as satire of a festering right-wing panic over Antifa allegedly planning violence on November 4. It got weird from there. What is it like to attend your own funeral? In my mind, it has to be something like waking up on a Monday morning, logging onto Twitter, and finding out…
Photo: AP The White House’s effort to head every science-adjacent agency with science skeptics continued apace today, when the Senate held a confirmation hearing for Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), Trump’s pick to lead NASA. You’ll be shocked to learn that his views on climate change do not exactly comport with the overwhelming scientific consensus on the…
AP On Tuesday, Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona announced he will be retiring from Congress in 2019. To that I say: Bye, bitch!!! Flake decided to announce the end to his political career in the most Jeff Flake way possible: with a grandstanding speech on the Senate floor. People like to characterize Flake as a…
iStock I have a confession to make. I’m black. I’m a black guy with black parents and black relatives and even some black friends. I also work at Morgan State, a historically black university. And since we’re keeping it 100, I’m the political editor at The Root, which you are reading right now, and which…