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President-elect Donald Trump, in Washington, has continued to criticize the media in the days since the election. Credit Photograph by Zach Gibson / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ The fantasy of the normalization of Donald Trump—the idea that a demagogic candidate would somehow be transformed into a statesman of poise and deliberation after his Election Day…
storytext President-elect Donald Trump backed out of a meeting he had called with The New York Times on Tuesday. Trump had asked for the meeting with Times executives, and also agreed to meet on the record with reporters and columnists. He said on Twitter that the “terms and conditions” were changed at the last minute…
Annemarie Dooling, the director of programming for Vox Media’s Racked.com, is an online communities expert who has worked with Salon, AOL and The Huffington Post. She is on Twitter (@TravelingAnna). Updated November 22, 2016, 3:20 AM All discussion on the role that social platforms played in the election has centered on the type of content…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Say what you will about the merits of Facebook’s Internet.org and Free Basics — it’s pretty cool that they’re building a huge, solar-powered, laser-shooting drone to deliver it. But a “structural failure” that occurred on the Aquila’s first test flight may be more serious than Facebook made it out to be:…
What do a comedy show, a newspaper, and a former political candidate have in common? In a stunning example of “punching down, not up,” this latest edition of Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live took a swipe at the recent news that Tinder added 37 new gender identity options to their dating app. In whole, the joke was: The dating app…
1. Mike Pence attended a Broadway performance of Hamilton on Friday, and was booed by the audience. After the show, a cast member spoke to Pence directly and delivered an impassioned plea. Tonight, VP-Elect Mike Pence attended #HamiltonBway. After the show, @BrandonVDixon delivered the following stateme… https://t.co/ZVumpj3BBD — Hamilton (@HamiltonMusical) “We, sir — we are…
It’s been a bad couple of years for explosion enthusiast Roland Emmerich. First, his gay rights drama Stonewall spawned accusations of whitewashing before being quickly forgotten by audiences. Then, his and frequent collaborator Dean Devlin’s Independence Day sequel, Resurgence, got blasted out of theaters by a giant laser beam of critical revulsion and audience indifference….
Flickr/Tim Regan Earlier this week, a post written by programmer and teacher Bill Sourour went viral. It’s called “Code I’m Still Ashamed Of.” In it he recounts a horrible story of being a young programmer who landed a job building a website for a pharmaceutical company. The whole post is worth a read, but the upshot…
.entry-header About the nicest thing you can say about President Trump’s incoming administration is that it is without precedent. But there is another way of looking at it: it is not normal. Normal, you might argue, is a bad thing when people are hurting. In fact, there is enough polling about why people voted for…
Protesters marched in Washington on Saturday, outside a conference of alt-right writers, activists and supporters. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times WASHINGTON — By the time Richard B. Spencer, the leading ideologue of the alt-right movement and the final speaker of the night, rose to address a gathering of his followers on Saturday, the crowd…