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Had Bernie been Bernadette — The heartbreaking truth about American patriarchy When I was 22, I got a death threat in the mail. I was the co-president of the Wisconsin chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). It arrived at our one-room office. My name was chicken-scratched on the envelope. He heard me interviewed on the…
Gif from Game of Thrones season 4 bloopers I’d like to ceremoniously welcome Ian McShane to the DGAF Club—for actors who are going to say exactly what’s on their minds, even if fans, producers or suits don’t appreciate it. He can join Daniel Craig and Robert Pattinson in the British chapter of the club. Spoilers…
One evening in Hawaii in 2009, a lanky young man named Nathan Williams led his girlfriend Katie into a forest near the beach. They were both students at the nearby Honolulu campus of Brigham Young University, and unbeknownst to Katie, that morning Nathan had come across a cozy bower and worked with a few friends…
Cokie Roberts talks about her book Capital Dames on ABC’s Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos last April. Roberts left her position as a full-time staffer at NPR in 1992 but has regularly appeared on the air as a commentator. Fred Lee/ABC via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Fred Lee/ABC via Getty Images…
Once again, hacktivist collective Anonymous has threatened to take down 2016 presidential hopeful Donald Trump, this time declaring “total war” on the GOP frontrunner. Anonymous’ war plan against Trump includes dismantling the candidate’s online presence and digging for dirt on the business tycoon in an attempt to destroy his brand. According to a video posted to…
For the better part of the last decade, Silicon Valley tech companies have seemingly been on a mission to make up for the down years following the burst of the dot-com bubble, spending money at a record clip. The new offices have been stunning, the sales kickoffs have been larger than life, and the holiday parties have…
In honor of the Ides, I’ve written the following short play: The Helpful Soothsayer SOOTHSAYER: Caesar! Beware the Ides of March!CAESAR: Why?SOOTHSAYER: Because Cassius and Brutus and a bunch of other people are planning to stab you to death then.CAESAR: Wow, thanks very much, Soothsayer. I’ll get right on that. THE END Additionally, if you want to print out…
Furious troll Donald Trump’s only sympathetic publication is now, fittingly, a heap of anonymous, furious trolls. Since the moment Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields claimed that Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski had physically assaulted her, the conservative news organization has had a major crisis of conscience: could the publication, which so routinely mistrusts women and the…
/end .figure To my enduring surprise, responses and reactions to this piece continue to trickle in — some in the form of emails and tweets and pending comments, some in the form of essays on related topics. Most of the people who’ve reached out to me personally have been supportive, and many have shared similar stories. As for the people who…
Should television journalists be staging child abductions as a sort of science experiment? Last Friday, Kathryn Nathanson, a producer at NBC’s “Today” show, sent an email to friends looking for volunteers for an upcoming segment. “We are going to stage a fake abduction of a young girl or boy (ages 9-14),” she wrote. “They will…