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“What’s more American,” the Carl’s Jr. narrator asks in a 2015 advertisement for the Most American Thickburger, “than a girl [swimsuit model Samantha Hoopes, biting into a potato-chip-stuffed cheeseburger that’s topped with a grilled hot dog] in a bikini [camera zooms out to reveal she’s wearing a stars-and-stripes string bikini] in a hot tub [covered…
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general, following a bitter debate in the chamber that saw Republicans formally rebuke Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for the manner in which she criticized her colleague from Alabama. Sessions, a four-term U.S. senator, was the first senator to endorse Trump in February 2016, and…
There is something endlessly frustrating when a news site launches a redesign that is a barely changed rehash of a large media companies older design. Few, if any, media companies are backing up their design with user experience science. If the final sites are any indication, we have paid little attention to decades of significant…
END scald=5215111 Pro-choice campaigners rally in defence of abortion rights Getty A pregnant woman’s husband will have the power to stop her from having an abortion, even in cases of spousal rape, under a new law introduced in the US state of Arkansas. Most second trimester abortions will also be banned by Act 45 – the Unborn Child Protection From Dismemberment Abortion Act –…
It’s tough being a heroic anti-Nazi street fighter when you’re the closest thing to a Nazi around. Last week, anti-fascist protesters showed up in Berkeley, California, to courageously battle the Nazi supporters of alt-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos. Soon after, they likewise put it all on the line to tussle with the right-wing mob supporting radical…
At a protest at NYU on Thursday, antifa activists ripped a Donald Trump hat from a man’s head and set it on fire.DNAinfo/Noah Hurowitz NEW YORK CITY — A movement seeking to take down fascists has taken the spotlight since Donald Trump’s inauguration — smashing windows, clashing at the University of California in Berkeley and…
Banner Image In stark contrast with many liberals, antifa activists refuse any dialogue with Trumpism. Anti-Racist Action protesting neo-Nazis holding anti-immigration rally in Smith County, Texas. (AP Photo / Tyler Morning Telegraph, Tom Turner) To call Trumpism fascist is to suggest that it demands from us a unique response. We can deploy the “fascism” moniker…
Rep. Don Beyer rocking a “Keep the EPA Great” hat. IMAGE: Twitter A Congressional hearing held Tuesday, “Making EPA Great Again,” condemned the Environmental Protection Agency before it even began. Among those slated testify on “how EPA can pursue environmental protection and protect public health by relying on sound science” was a coal lawyer, a…
US Customs and Border Protection officer at the Miami International Airport on July 1, 2016 (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) Back in September, I published a list of everything that had been seized in Florida over the summer by US Customs and Border Protection. There were plenty of things you’d expect, like drugs, Cuban cigars, and illegal…
Image: Getty As individuals, our DNA offers insight into things like our personalities, our health and where we come from. But taken together, all those individual portraits can add up to paint a detailed history of humankind. A study published this week in Nature Communications led by the DNA testing company Ancestry.com presents exactly this kind…