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On Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton secured huge primary wins in Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, and Ohio, making Bernie Sanders’s path to the Democratic presidential nomination nearly impossible. But as The Daily Show points out, those big wins capped off a week where Clinton repeatedly goofed up and said some puzzling things. In a segment called…
N. Korea Sentences Virginia Student To 15 Years Of Prison, Hard Labor Otto Frederick Warmbier, a 21-year-old American student, speaks during a news conference in Pyongyang on February 29. Xinhua News Agency/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Xinhua News Agency/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images Otto Frederick Warmbier, a 21-year-old American student, speaks…
Note from Robin: This saga appeared in my secure dropbox late last month, along with a plea to post it on Facebook today in exactly the format you see here. I gather I’m not the only one to have received those instructions. I can’t vouch for the authenticity of the story, but I thought it…
AFP/Getty Images Nothing gold can stay. In a press release put out this afternoon, Instagram announced that it was going to start moving away from a rigidly chronological feed. Instead, the photo platform that users loves for its undiluted simplicity will, in the coming months, move toward an algorithm-based approach that will purportedly float the…
Continue reading the main story Generated by ai2html v0.52 – 2016-03-14 – 17:26 ai file: readingdata preview: 2016-03-11-readingdata scoop : reader-data Artboard: 300 The percentage of readers who finished reading each chapter of three specific e-books. How people read a successful U.S. novel … 62 percent of readers finish the book. Front pages including a…
The New York Times ran a piece about Bernie Sanders Monday, a sort of left-handed compliment of a legislative profile. It was called “Bernie Sanders Scored Victories for Years Via Legislative Side Doors.” Sidebar Four Amendments and a Funeral » I took notice of the piece by Jennifer Steinhauer because I wrote essentially the…
W and Hillary at Nancy Reagan’s Funeral A Picture is Worth a Thousand Trolls Or, How We Got Here. A few years ago, when the hate that laced our political discourse was heated, but by today’s standards, at what seems like a totally reasonable level, I used to always remind politically-enraged people of Carville and…
Palm Beach, FL – Donald Trump celebrated a string of primary wins at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday in a palatial room of white paint, gold detailing, and crystal chandeliers that looked ready for an imperial coronation. Not quite yet, though. Republican voters faced a choice on Tuesday between Trump and chaos. They decided to…
Even the conversation about fixing the web’s harassment problem is not immune to the destructive power of online harassment itself. At the popular interactive media convention South by Southwest this week, a summit dedicated to discussing harassment wound up provoking the same sort of behavior it hoped to stop. It started when porn star Mercedes…
Tomorrow, for the first time ever for a reason other than weather, the entire WMATA metro system servicing Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia will shut down for more than 24 hours in the middle of the week. WMATA General Manager Paul Wiedefeld described the shutdown as necessary for an “emergency investigation.” On Monday, a sudden…