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Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel speaks at the 2016 Republican National Convention last month in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.) Peter Thiel proudly acknowledged (again) on Monday his funding of an invasion of privacy lawsuit that brought Gawker Media to its knees, ahead of the company’s scheduled bankruptcy auction later today. In a prominent op-ed in…
Recently, the Harvard University Republican Club (of kids) got widespread news coverage for refusing to endorse Donald Trump. Now the Yale Republicans are in a public battle over Trump as well. Hey—fuck off!!! Should we care what a bunch of 20-year-old college Republicans, who are some of the world’s most insufferable pricks, think or do?…
Here’s a tiny, tiny wrinkle in the ongoing Gawker Media auction: LittleThings, a digital publisher that specializes in Facebook-friendly content, says it wants to buy Jezebel, one of the sites owned by Gawker Media. The problem is, Jezebel isn’t for sale: Gawker Media, which is in bankruptcy, wants to sell all seven of its sites…
Welcome to Well, Actually where I surface the opinions you’re probably not reading about a news event that’s filling your social media feeds. This week, the candidacy of Donald Trump. — To begin this exercise I need you, dear reader, to reach deep inside and pull out your reserve empathy supplies. For the next 10…
The 2012 Olympics never came to New York, but they changed its course forever.View Full Caption Mario Tama/Getty Images Almost 5,000 miles away from the site of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games there lies a city forever changed by its own bid to host the games. New York City was one of five finalists when the International…
The year 2000 was a good time to be an Arab-American Republican. For the first time in the community’s history, a presidential candidate had come courting. Then-Texas Governor George W. Bush was determined to woo Michigan’s Arab-American voters in the run-up to that November’s election, which meant targeting Dearborn, the vote-rich Detroit suburb where one-third…
After Comedy Central announced yesterday that it’s decided to cancel The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, last night’s episode went from a typical election season episode to one of the last four episodes ever, and Wilmore opened the show with some thoughts on the sad news. After thanking Comedy Central, the Nightly Show staff, and…
Four years ago, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Gabby Douglas became the first black American woman to win gymnastics’ most prestigious title: Olympic individual all-around champion. She was 16 at the time, a bundle of flash and grace in a metallic leotard. Looking back at her best event, the uneven bars, is like…
The trailer for new film Hidden Figures debuted this weekend and, I kid you not, watching it gives me chills. The film, which is landing in theaters in January 2017, is based on the true story of African American women who worked as mathematicians and engineers for NASA in the 1960s. They were the original…
Historically, American fathers dreamed that their sons would grow up to be greater men than they were. That was before the dreaded “millennial” generation. http://deadspin.com/grip-it-good-6… Today, cold hard science proves that the “millennial” male is a weak and tepid creature with the handshake of a wilted lettuce leaf. A disgraceful new study finds that today’s…