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The 2016 election took place under the spectre of a bubble. Not the subprime mortgage lending bubble that shaped the 2008 election, but the “filter bubble”. Tens of millions of American voters gets their news on Facebook, where highly personalized news feeds dish up a steady stream of content that reinforces users’ pre-existing beliefs. Facebook…
Hide CM floating unit Donald Trump’s First, Alarming Week as President-Elect Donald Trump’s motorcade and security staff outside the “21” Club, in New York City, after he told his press pool that he would not be leaving his residence but then went to the restaurant. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY CAROLYN KASTER / AP Barrier Status: ‘none’…
The dangers of unchecked executive power. In December 2007 presidential candidate Barack Obama told The Boston Globe that if he won the 2008 election, he would enter the White House committed to rolling back the sort of overreaching executive power that had characterized the presidency of George W. Bush. “The President is not above the…
In the days following Donald Trump’s upset presidential victory, his supporters, emboldened by the rhetoric of his campaign, have been involved in countless acts of hate across the country ranging from verbal to physical abuse. “Silicon Valley” stars Kumail Nanjiani and Thomas Middleditch came face to face with Trump’s America Friday night when two internet…
never again FEATURE November 11, 2016 by Ijeoma Oluo Donald Trump is not my #1 concern. Yes, I am concerned about Trump. I’m fucking terrified. But that’s nothing compared to how I feel about the people who voted for Trump. In four years, in eight years, they’ll still be here—regardless of…
By the spring of this year, it was clear that Americans were heading into one of the ugliest, most consequential and often bizarre presidential campaigns in memory. Donald Trump would become the improbable Republican nominee, and Democrat Hillary Clinton the first woman to head a major-party ticket. Their clash challenged Americans to confront divisions over…
They will blame James Comey and the FBI. They will blame voter suppression and racism. They will blame Bernie or bust and misogyny. They will blame third parties and independent candidates. They will blame the corporate media for giving him the platform, social media for being a bullhorn, and WikiLeaks for airing the laundry. But…
President Barack Obama on Sunday mocked Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for having his Twitter access taken away by his campaign staff, who hope to minimize the real estate mogul’s frequent social media ramblings in the last days before the election. “Apparently, his campaign has taken away his Twitter,” Obama said, speaking at a Hillary…
Donald Trump’s final campaign advertisement appears to employ classic antisemitic innuendo. “The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election,” the GOP presidential nominee warns in the two-minute video. “For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that don’t have…
Photo: AP On Monday, Donald Trump summoned the most visible members of the press corps—television news reporters and the executives of their networks—to his gilded apartment building, where he sat them in a boardroom and acted out his best version of The Apprentice in an off-the-record meeting from which the New York Post has nonetheless…