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During one of the Democratic debates last December, as a five-minute commercial break came to a close, there was a problem: Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hadn’t yet returned to the stage. The moderators, forced to abide by the constraints of live television, carried on without her, until, a few minutes later, she resumed her place…
Illustration: Jim Cooke, Photo: Getty Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has generated an unceasing torrent of press attention that some estimate to be worth roughly $2 billion. Yet the central mystery at the very core of his persona—his inscrutable hairdo—has somehow, impossibly, remained unsolved. Until, perhaps, now. A tipster who claimed knowledge of Trump’s…
Late-night CNN viewers were treated to a brief moment of Cinemax-style steaminess during a segment that aired at about 1:30 a.m. Eastern time today. While on-air personalities were discussing protests at a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico last night, the screen behind them displayed a tweet from the Donald about the event. “Does your…
Video Trump Protesters Clash With Police Outside a rally for Donald J. Trump in Albuquerque, protesters threw rocks at police officers. By THE NEW YORK TIMES on Publish Date May 25, 2016. Photo by Roberto Rosales/Albuquerque Journal, via Associated Press. Watch in Times Video » ALBUQUERQUE — Protesters outside a rally for Donald J. Trump…
Attorney General Loretta Lynch recently stated that North Carolina’s new law regarding transgender people and public restrooms is in violation of federal civil-rights law. Credit Photograph by Drew Angerer / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ This month, regional battles over the right of transgender people to access public bathrooms were elevated to national legal theatre. First,…
CREDIT: Kira Lerner Assault weapons on display at the NRA annual meeting. “What’s your edc?” Sitting alone in my Louisville hotel room, working in my pajamas, I pulled up a new internet tab to consult Urban Dictionary. I consider myself proficient in internet speak — I taught many of my friends what Netflix and chill…
You might have heard that Americans overwhelmingly favor mandatory labeling for foods containing genetically modified ingredients. That’s true, according to a new study: 84 percent of respondents said they support the labels. Brandon McFadden and Jayson Lusk But a nearly identical percentage—80 percent—in the same survey said they’d also like to see labels on food…
Bernie Sanders’s supporters are fond of the hypothesis that Democratic superdelegates, the elected leaders and party officials who currently support Hillary Clinton by a lopsided-doesn’t-even-begin-to-describe-it 469 to 31, are going to bow to the “will of the people” if Sanders ends up winning more pledged delegates than Clinton by June. There’s just one hiccup in…
Washington state caucus-goers. (Ted S. Warren/AP) Writer and activist Shaun King has a prolific presence on social media and an outspoken passion for Bernie Sanders. King appeared in Sanders’s Spike Lee-directed promotional video that came out shortly before the New York primary, and he has consistently advocated for the senator from Vermont on Twitter for…
(Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) “He’s won some, we’ve won some, but I have 2.5 million more votes than he does.” — Hillary Clinton, in an interview on ABC’s “The View,” April 5, 2016 This article has been updated with the most recent primary results The Clinton campaign often points to the fact that the former…