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A “beware racism” placard seen in New York’s Grand Central Station. Is that racist? Over the weekend, a sizable gaggle of the white nationalist “alt-right” convened at a federal building in Washington, D.C., to puff their chests. It was a motley crew, emboldened by the election of Donald Trump, with whom they shared a broad…
Christiane Amanpour was honored with the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for her extraordinary and sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom on November 22, 2016. The text of Amanpour’s acceptance speech, as prepared for delivery, is below. I never in a million years thought I would be up here on stage appealing for…
No, Trump, We Can’t Just Get Along – NYTimes.com. Source: No, Trump, We Can’t Just Get Along – NYTimes.com
A hideous rubber mask holds up a Halloween costume. Photo via AP My doves. My lambs. My exhausted little baby angels, bruised as though we’d all fallen down a ladder stretching from Heaven into the lowest fetid depths of Hell itself. What a terrible, terrible journey we’ve taken together, from the moment in June 2015…
You can learn everything you need to know about the “alt-right” by looking at the man who popularized its name. Credit goes to Richard Spencer, head of the white supremacist National Policy Institute (NPI), and one of the country’s leading contemporary advocates of ideological racism. The weekend before Thanksgiving, Spencer keynoted an NPI conference in…
Reuters OVER KILL Sorry, Hillary Clinton Fans. There’s ‘Zero Evidence’ of Election Hacking. Democrats cried hallelujah when computer scientists reportedly pressed Hillary Clinton ask for recounts. But even those experts say an election hack is beyond unlikely. Does Hillary Clinton still have a path to the White House? That’s the provocative question posed by some…
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday afternoon that Ben Carson had accepted Donald TrumpDonald TrumpU.S. sees rise in apprehensions along southern border Stop blaming Facebook for Trump’s election win The Electoral College has to go — here’s how we do it MORE‘s offer to be the next secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Carson was…
WASHINGTON Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a former presidential rival, on Wednesday accepted an offer from President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a Carson spokesman. As recently as last week, Carson had told The Washington Post he was not interested in a Cabinet…
Earth, captured by NASA spacecraft DSCOVR. Image: NASA/NOAA Earth: It’s the planet we live on. Understanding its complex dynamics is essential to the continuation of human civilization on our home world, and beyond it. That’s why NASA has spent the last decade heavily investing in its Earth Science Division, with the support of the…
A 53-year-old white supremacist will spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty of murdering Labour MP Jo Cox in what the trial judge called a vicious and premeditated attack “designed to advance the cause of violent white nationalism”. Thomas Mair, whose home was littered with Nazi literature and memorabilia as…