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WASHINGTON—Pulling them aside Wednesday for a “quick father-daughter talk,” President Obama finally revealed to his children, Sasha and Malia, the exact nature of his work, White House sources confirmed. “You girls have probably been wondering where I go every day and why I sometimes disappear for much of the week. Well, I’m not proud of…
At The Washington Post/Univision debate in Miami, Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton panned Donald Trump, vowed to reform immigration and sparred over their respective records. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) Please make these debates stop. I’m not having fun any more. Please let me out of this deep well. And stop giving me…
To accommodate everything that went on in the 2016 campaign just this past week, “Saturday Night Live” had to break format and jam four cold opens into the top of the show last night. Beck Bennett as Jake Tapper hosted the week-in-review montage, which began with Darrell Hammond’s Donald Trump — complete with a woefully introspective…
Today in New Jersey, Chris Christie held a press conference that appeared to mostly be a response to memes about the weirdo glass-eyed stare he had on his face during Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday press event. Speaking to reporters, Christie reiterated that he “wasn’t being held hostage” which is something that only someone currently being…
Last week, American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis revisited his character Patrick Bateman, telling Town & Country that present-day Bateman would be “wearing a Yeezy hoodie and teasing girls on Tinder.” With that in mind, here’s how a chapter out of 2016’s version of American Psycho might read. Abandon all hope ye who enter here…
15 ‘Real’ Headlines The Media’s Too Afraid To Write (2/26) Finding the truth in the news is like following a map to buried treasure, if the “buried treasure” was actually two moldy cookies and one non-moldy one that’s half-eaten. But luckily for you, our readers have taken this week’s popular headlines and stripped them of…
2016 Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon, from left, Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc., Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, and John Kasich, governor of Ohio, participate in the Republican presidential primary candidate debate sponsored by CNN and Telemundo at the…
As a leading hyperglocal thinkfluencer and advocate for the dynamic new era of Journalism 3.0, I am often asked: What are the hot media properties to watch? Which innovators should we seek to emulate? And who is making the future, today? In response to popular demand, here are six of my favorite media startups…
Songs From A Mountain Goats Album In Which Cicero Is Not Mentioned And Everybody’s Marriages Work Out on October 28, 2015in Albums In Which /end .article-byline The Mountain Goats – John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Jon Wurster, December 2010. /end .figure “I Love You. Let’s Stay Away From Fire Accelerants” “This Motel Isn’t A Symbol…
Credit ILLUSTRATION BY JOHN MALTA Barrier Status: ‘none’ TO: Park Slope Parents Listserv FROM: JennFletcher14@rocketmail.com SUBJECT: Re: Rules of Park Slope Parents’ Fight Club Just sending a friendly reminder to all parents after SOMEONE left a roll of medical gauze in the rec center last Thursday! FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB: You MUST be a…