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If the very worst happens, it won’t be because we didn’t know that it might happen. We have all been amply warned. We’ve been warned of the many disturbing parallels between Donald Trump and Hitler. We’ve been warned that the rise of Trump resembles the rise of other authoritarian populist demagogues. We’ve been warned—by Donald…
Photo Credit: Richard Drew/AP Despite what anyone may want to believe, the chances of Donald Trump moving into the White House in January are not trivial. He is still a candidate; he still has ardent supporters; and he still could be our next president. This means that, now more than ever, journalists with relevant information…
Photo credit: Evan Vucci/AP As you’re likely aware by now, yesterday evening BuzzFeed published a dossier of allegations about Donald Trump, including the instantly unforgettable description of a hotel-room piss party with Russian prostitutes. This set the internet on fire for much of last night and dominated a bizarre press conference held earlier today in…
“The internet is going crazy over this insane optical illusion.” It’s the sentence that’s started a million blogs in the past and will continue to start a million blogs in the future—and for good reason. Because where the fuck are this girl’s legs? As you can see, there are six girls, five sets of legs,…
Newt, my boy. My dear, morally bankrupt Newt. What did Mr. Trump do to you? Did he hurt you? You can tell us. You don’t have to do this. Newt Gingrich, who has not been given any formal position in Donald Trump’s administration despite countless months of groveling and boot-licking, made a big no-no yesterday….
Please note that this post contains ALL OF THE SPOILERS. In fact, I’m so conscientious of spoiling Rogue One that I’m gonna put a shitload of Greek copy between here and the actual beginning of the post. [All work and no force chokes make Vader a dull boy. All work and no force chokes make…
Donald Trump is both addicted to media attention and prone to lying to suit his own needs. There is no reason—none—for journalists to allow him to harangue them off-the-record. So stop. What, exactly, is accomplished by “off the record” meetings between journalists and political figures? A simple breakdown: Politicians gain: A chance to convince journalists…
Image by Jim Cooke Last week, I asked people who voted for Donald Trump to write in and explain why they made that choice. They did! We got dozens of emails from Trump supporters telling us why they voted the way they did, and I have grouped selections of them into general categories…
On March 15, 2002, 15 Saudi girls burned to death inside their school in Mecca. They were not trapped by fallen debris, or unaccounted for by firefighters. The mutaween, Saudi Arabia’s religious police, would not allow the girls to leave their burning school because they were not covering their hair or wearing their abayas. The…
Illustration: Jim Cooke Congratulations to all the wieners. Mark Halperin (and sidekick John Heilemann), Bloomberg Just about the only good thing you can say about Mark Halperin (and John Heilemann) is that they managed to swindle a lot of money from prickly billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who hired the two of them in 2014 for a…