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I spent five hours at the Donald Trump rally in Sacramento, California, on 1 June. I spoke to and overheard dozens of the rally’s attendees, not as a journalist but as one ticketholder to another – I was dressed in jeans, workboots and wore a Nascar hat – and found every last one of the…
Torn posters litter the floor following a Donald Trump campaign rally on April 25 at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images As of Monday morning, the Trump campaign doesn’t have a manager. “The Donald J. Trump Campaign for President, which has set a historic record in the Republican Primary having received almost 14…
A popular app that claims to scan the Mediterranean Sea in real time for adrift refugees does not work as its developers claim it does and may be a ploy to win an advertising industry award, experts say. The app, I Sea, was nominated at the Canne Lions awards show, an international advertising festival held…
Photo A crowded inflatable boat with Syrian refugees drifted in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece in August. Credit Yannis Behrakis/Reuters A charitable organization that helps rescue migrants in the Mediterranean has cut ties with I Sea, a mobile app that claimed to help users locate refugees adrift at sea, after outside developers revealed…
What happens when parents leave the workforce because they cannot afford child care? The annual cost of a child care center for a typical American family with an infant and a four-year-old is nearly $18,000. As a result, many parents face the untenable choice between spending an average of nearly 30 percent of their paycheck…
Image: Jim Cooke Gawker Media has filed for bankruptcy. The specific circumstances leading to that bankruptcy are unique and bizarre. The fact of a media company declaring itself bankrupt, however, is pretty much a commonplace. Under other conditions—even facing down a different, more conventionally motivated lawsuit—Gawker’s bankruptcy process might seem somewhat straightforward. Obviously the lawsuits…
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Begin: WordPress Article Content The best satire is indistinguishable from the subject matter it addresses. And sometimes the subject matter is indistinguishable from satire. For the foreseeable future, the absurd rebranding of tronc and this astonishing video will exemplify the latter. I’m still not entirely sure this isn’t some absolutely brilliant hoax. If it is,…
Photo Julia Louis-Dreyfus, left, and Anna Chlumsky in “Veep.” Credit Prashant Gupta/HBO ‘Veep’ Season 5, Episode 9: ‘Kissing Your Sister’ A year ago, “Veep” shook up its formula with “Testimony,” an episode which wrapped up Season 4’s big lobbying/hacking story line by having nearly all the major characters explain themselves in front of Congress, one…