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The cover was tweeted by the magazine shortly before 10 p.m. ET. A source with knowledge of the issue’s contents told CNN earlier Thursday that the issue will feature a blistering editorial that labels Trump a threat to conservatism, as well as essays by 22 prominent conservative thinkers from various ideological factions, in opposition to…
fuck no Look, we hate Ted Cruz. We talk about it often. Democrats hate him, not because he’s threatening in the electoral way, but because he’s a pompous sack of Canadian goose droppings with absolutely no breeding, the kind of man who thinks it’s funny to make “jokes” about Joe Biden the same week his son…
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser delivered an apology to the residents of the District after the city failed to adequately prepare for an inch of snowfall Wednesday, which caused significant delays during rush hour. (WUSA9) As we’ve proved before, we’re not good at snow. And on Wednesday night, we proved it again in utterly humiliating fashion,…
Back in November, Grimes released her technicolor new record, Art Angels. During The FADER’s cover story reporting back in the summer, we sat down with Canadian producer and singer Claire Boucher in her Los Angeles home to find out how she’s evolved the Grimes project, the misconceptions she has to deal with as a DIY…
Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Photo by Barbara Eldredge Yes, it’s true, the mind-boggling Brooklyn real estate boom of the last three years slowed in the fourth quarter, just as real estate agents predicted. No, not everyone will agree, but the numbers have spoken. It’s great news for buyers, who could use a break, and not bad for…
Would your son want to play with an action figure of Rey, the central figure in the latest Star Wars film? Would your daughter? It’s too bad they don’t have the choice; Hasbro, among other toymakers, left out the one key female figure in their The Force Awakens game sets. Hasbro says it was to…
VICE started in 1994 as a newsprint monthly in Montreal, and is now a global youth media company that includes print, event, music, online, television, and feature film divisions that operates in over 30 countries. VICE is the industry leader in original video for the web. With dozens of original series franchises across all content…
Whatever happened to television’s most famous couples? Ross and Rachel. Carrie and Big. Cory and Topanga. Whether you love them or love to hate them, you can’t deny the enormous place so many of television’s fictional couples occupy in pop culture. And if you’ve ever come within 20 feet of a water cooler, chances are…
In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed his name to the lease of a new apartment in Brooklyn. Even now, over half a century later, that uninspiring document prompts a double-take. Below all the legal jargon is the signature of the man who had composed “This Land Is Your Land,” the most resounding appeal to an…
The sky is falling on print newspapers faster than you think Last October, a McKinsey report declared, “We believe that many of the people likely to abandon print newspapers and print consumer magazines have already done so…. We believe most of this core audience — households that have retained their print subscriptions despite having access to broadband — will…