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Officials in Virginia’s largest jurisdiction want to close public schools during the Super Tuesday presidential primaries, saying they fear that supporters of Republican front-runner Donald Trump could cause mayhem at the polls. The concerns stem mainly from a state Republican Party decision — which Trump opposes — to require voters to affirm that they are…
Is it even news anymore that the supporters of a self-professed anti-Muslim candidate are also anti-Muslim themselves? A Muslim woman who was kicked out for standing up in silent protest at a Donald Trump rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on Friday night says that she was berated by the crowd as she left the…
Donald Trump isn’t a fan of protesters at his rallies, sure, but is he willing to send them to their deaths? Sure, why not. Trump became the judge, jury and executioner last night when he heard someone booing at his Burlington, VT rally. His edict? If you can’t take Donald Trump’s heat, go outside without…
I Consider a simple and deceptively important question: What exactly is the Republican Party, anyway? One possible answer to this question — more commonly held than one might expect at first blush — is that the Republican Party is a group of people very loosely bound by little more than an arbitrary shopping list of…
The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb There’s a fun game I like to play in a group of trusted friends called “Controversial Opinion.” The rules are simple: Don’t talk about what was shared during Controversial Opinion after and you aren’t allowed to “argue” — only to ask questions about why that person feels that way. Opinions can…
“It’s very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it,” Donald Trump told Fortune in 2000, during his first abortive run for president. He was referring to a $1 million motivational speaking deal he got from Tony Robbins that he timed to coincide with his campaign stops….
WASHINGTON — Old-guard racists like David Duke aren’t the only white nationalists to have been encouraged by Donald Trump’s candidacy this year: His bid has also provided a tremendous boost to a newer movement calling itself the “alt right.” Up until now, the alt right labored mostly in obscurity, its internal fights and debates hidden…
Photo Jeb Bush performed a faux striptease to reveal a “Reagan-Bush ’84” campaign shirt at his headquarters in September. Credit Joe Raedle/Getty Images The hints of irreverence can be traced to a private meeting in Coral Gables, Fla., with the soon-to-be presidential candidate and his rapper acquaintance. Jeb Bush had grown fond of Pitbull, the…
It’s uncanny! Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at a rally in the city, April 17, 2014, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Dec. 21, 2015Photo illustration by Slate. Rob Ford by Geoff Robins/AFP/Getty Images. Donald Trump by Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. Excerpted from The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon…
AP It appears all three women who were tricked into marrying ambulatory man-wig Donald Trump were born without urethras, because America’s next president thinks it’s pretty gross that females have to purge their food waste somehow. Last night, Trump said presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s decision to use a ladies’ restroom at this weekend’s Democratic…