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Years of lawyerless interrogation at Guantanamo Bay failed to connect Murat Kurnaz with terrorism—but Samantha gives him a grilling just in case. Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Mondays at 10:30/9:30c on TBS! Visit SamanthaBee.com for more videos and web extras. Source: The Wrong Guy | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube
For a country that was partly founded on the idea of opposing “taxation without representation,” it’s always been a tad odd that those who live in our very capital, the District of Columbia, pay taxes while being denied representation. Especially when you consider that there are more people living in D.C. than in either Vermont…
For a glimpse into just how precise Facebook ad targeting is getting, look to Washington, D.C. Specifically look to 1849 C Street, N.W., a few blocks from the White House, where you’ll find the headquarters for the Department of the Interior, the federal agency tasked with managing national parks, federal land and natural resources. Alaska…
Let’s be honest: national leadership is a cakewalk when you’ve already got a government and infrastructure in place. As long as you don’t interfere with the integrity of an established system for determining succession or base your entire mission statement on stopping anything from getting done, you can’t screw up too badly. (Personal note to…
Photo Harriet Tubman, an abolitionist who helped to rescue slaves, in the late 1800s. Credit H. B. Lindsley/Library of Congress WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department will announce on Wednesday afternoon that Harriet Tubman, an African-American who ferried thousands of slaves to freedom, will replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the center of a new $20…
New York’s primary has been a mess even by this year’s generally messy standards. The state’s closed system requires voters to register with a party more than six months in advance if they want to vote in the primary—which is by far the earliest and most independent-unfriendly deadline in the nation. Previously unaffiliated voters—and there are a…
The county of Kings is playing an outsized role in New York State’s presidential primary race — particularly among Democrats. As the birthplace of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Brooklyn figures into nearly every one of his stump speeches. It’s also where former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has based her national campaign headquarters. Yet, even…
Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the New York City Board of Elections to investigate why more than 63,000 registered Democrats were dropped from the voting rolls since last fall. The request comes the same day a WNYC analysis revealed the largest decline in active registered Democrats statewide was in Brooklyn. But new data provided by…
Bernie Sanders is raising staggering amounts of money through the ActBlue fundraising site. Much of it comes from small donors. How much did he raise through February? $112,718,405. When the 2016 election began, the idea was that big money from big donors would dominate the election. Instead, many candidates with robust super PACs have failed;…