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As polls show that Donald Trump would overwhelmingly win if only men were allowed to vote, the GOP nominee’s supporters have spawned a new Twitter hashtag: #repealthe19th. That’s a reference to the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The Twitter commentary began after Nate Silver of the FiveThirtyEight website published an article Tuesday looking at men’s and women’s…
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Thank god for Jim Sterling, a game critic whose recent YouTube antics forced YouTube’s copyright system to eat itself alive. Here’s how he did it. As you may already know, YouTube has something called “Content ID,” which is a system that theoretically allows users to identify and manage their videos. Basically, once a video is…
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday called out Hillary Clinton for suggesting she was in New York on 9/11 — and social media critics responded with pictures that show her next to him at Ground Zero a day later. Clinton was in Washington, DC, on 9/11. She visited lower Manhattan the next day — with…
Hamish Nicklin In worst case scenarios, for every pound an advertiser spends programmatically on the Guardian only 30 pence actually goes to the publisher. The revelation, announced by the Guardian’s new chief revenue officer, Hamish Nicklin, at the Automated Trading Debate on Tuesday (4 Oct), means a host of adtech businesses operating within the supply…
Fox News Exclusive: Fox News Is Ready to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Megyn Kelly “I don’t think she knows what she is going to do,” says one source. Credit: By Damon Winter/The New York Times/Redux. Earlier this month, Fox News celebrated its 20th anniversary from within the confines of its newsroom. Bill Shine…
Presidential campaigns have always been a civics teacher’s most reliable lesson plan—an every-four-years, plucked-from-the-headlines romp through the ultimate example of American democracy. Oh, the opportunities for learning! The nuanced interplay of geography and policy, the rise of the two-party system and even the peculiarities of the Electoral College. Then came Candidate Trump. Suddenly kids were…
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A month ago, the perennial swing state of Ohio was slipping away from Hillary Clinton, who was struggling to win over working class whites and impress jaded millennials. Today, Ohio looks more and more like it is hers to lose. The story of why is about Donald Trump: The Republican nominee delivered a woeful opening…
close story-meta Photo The radio personality Glenn Beck introducing Senator Ted Cruz at a campaign event in Davenport, Iowa, in January. Credit Rick Wilking/Reuters Glenn Beck, the fiery conservative media personality and former Fox News host, says that he briefly considered voting for Hillary Clinton and called opposing Donald J. Trump the “moral, ethical choice”…