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Earlier today, Donald Trump announced on Twitter that Mike Pence, Governor of Indiana, had been chosen as his vice presidential candidate. Pence, 57, is a deeply traditional choice, he’s a standard old-school Republican who hews more closely to the GOP’s ideology than Trump. Pence is religious and speaks often of his Christianity as a motivating…
It’s a common stereotype that food stamp recipients, and those who abuse it, are black, Hispanic, or any other race but white. According to the USDA in their report for fiscal year 2013, 40% of recipients are white and 26% are black. Courtesy of Travissonno.com While the media and America’s culture will have you believe…
For more than any other American, it is Newt Gingrich who broke Congress. It was he who gave us the current version of that hopelessly dysfunctional institution — an institution which, according to a Gallup Poll, now has the confidence of 9% of the American people. That monster is his baby, and no one should…
Pour scorn elsewhere. / Joanna Slodownik Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter. The slow collapse of the social contract is the backdrop for a modern mania for clean eating, healthy living, personal productivity, and “radical self-love”—the insistence that, in spite of all evidence to the…
We, the undersigned, are in the uncomfortable position of reporting on a problem that we are told does not exist. We ask you to consider a few incidents. In 1968, the leftist Shulamith Firestone gives a speech at a conference. She is giving voice to one side of a debate that has arisen within radical…
Actress Holly Hunter and former Sen. Birch Bayh attend a news conference defending Title IX in 2003 on Capitol Hill in Washington.Linda Spillers/Getty Images In a series of jarring tweets Wednesday afternoon, blogger and co-editor of the tech site Boing Boing Xeni Jardin alleged that former Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh, the father of current…
/quality/90/?url=http://static.politico.com/10/e2/712013ef4e998af2a147f0c87742/06-donald-trump-70-gty-1160.jpg” data-size=”promo_xsmall_rectangle” /> But in Florida, the race has bounced around. Clinton led by one point in the first poll two months ago, but she opened up an eight-point lead in June — a lead that has been erased and more in the new Quinnipiac survey. The polls from the Connecticut-based school are likely to…
A horrible story from Minnesota, as reported by the Washington Post: A Minnesota traffic stop turned deadly Wednesday evening when a police officer opened fire on a black driver. The victim, 32-year-old Philando Castile, died at a Minneapolis hospital, a family member told The Washington Post. The aftermath of the shooting was filmed by…
If there’s anything to be said about Bernie Sanders fans, it’s that they’ve handled the past year with the sort of sensitivity so rarely seen in politics today. And now that Bernie Sanders has finally conceded to Hillary Clinton, they’re responding with the same fair-minded thoughtfulness we’ve all come to know and love. http://gawker.com/bernie-bites-t… You’ll…
Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders wave together during a campaign rally where Sanders endorsed Clinton in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S., July 12, 2016. (REUTERS/Mary Schwalm) Last month, Bernie Sanders livestreamed a national address two days after losing the last contest in the Democratic primary contest by 67 percentage points. It seemed like a moment…