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Normani Kordei, a member of the girl group on the rise Fifth Harmony, sat for a lighthearted Facebook Live interview earlier this month. Within a week, she had been chased off Twitter by a mob spewing racist insults. “I’ve not just been cyber bullied, I’ve been racially cyber bullied with tweets and pictures so horrific and racially…
Leading figures in the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party are calling for a ‘Dexit’ – Deutschland out of the EU – vote in the wake of the Brexit victory in the UK. Branding Brussels a ‘bureaucracy monster’ the party which trounced Angela Merkel’s conservatives in vital regional polls in the spring, AfD heavyweights say…
.row start .columns start .row end .columns end .row end BY: David Rutz Follow @DavidRutz August 15, 2016 1:37 pm Hillary Clinton almost took a spill on Monday as she stepped down from the podium to make way for Vice President Joe Biden during their joint campaign event in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Biden caught her arm,…
Men got haircuts and shaved their beards. Women lit up cigarettes and burned their niqabs. Residents of Manbij, Syria, who had lived under the Islamic State for nearly two years, came out onto the streets and celebrated, shedding tears of joy. “May God destroy them. They slaughtered us,” a young man shouted in a square…
These stories do not reflect my life, nor the lives of most of the queer women I know. But life has a frightening tendency to imitate art. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported that 2015 had the highest levels of violence against the L.G.B.T. community since 2011, the most frequent victims being transgender women…
Dear Boss, I have a conundrum. A co-worker of mine has said some pretty awful things on social media, and I don’t know what, if anything, to do about it. I work with this person occasionally. When I was new and had to ask him a few questions about a project, I googled him to…
In the first week of August, just as Hillary Clinton began to pull ahead significantly in the polls, Donald Trump prophylactically claimed that the only way he will lose in November is if Clinton cheats her way to victory. “I’m telling you, November 8, we’d better be careful, because that election is going to be…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Gabby Douglas had just completed the last routine and last post-competition interview of her Olympic career, and her eyes were puddling up with tears after someone asked her about the latest wave of criticism she had caught back in the U.S. “I tried to stay off the internet because there’s just…
Robles, who is Mexican-American, said before the games that she wanted to inspire other Latinos. “As an Olympic athlete, I represent all Americans, but representing Latinos and Latinas is a great honor.” Robles’ medal is even more monumental considering that no American man has medaled since 1984, Deadspin noted. Only two American women ― Tara…
Wendi Deng was married to Rupert Murdoch for 14 years before they divorced in 2013 amidst rumors that Deng had been cheating on the founder of News Corp. with Tony Blair, the ex-prime minister of the United Kingdom. (Both parties deny this.) With one, maybe two of the world’s most prominent morally questionable, gross men…