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Hillary Clinton, who at the time was selected to be secretary of state, checks her BlackBerry on an elevator at the U.S. Capitol in the District in January 2009. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Hillary Clinton’s email problems began in her first days as secretary of state. She insisted on using her personal BlackBerry for all her…
New York City middle school students are feeling the Bern, don’t trust Hillary Clinton and debated what it takes for a woman to be president. They might be holding out for Kanye’s bid in 2020, though. The students took a break from their P.S. 127 arts & literacy after school program to candidly discuss. Watch our…
Three individuals and two LGBT advocacy groups early Monday morning filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the recently passed North Carolina law that nullified local LGBT rights ordinances and restricted transgender people’s access to restrooms. “By singling out LGBT people for disfavored treatment and explicitly writing discrimination against transgender people into state law, H.B….
Photo: AP Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for the New York Times, and always one for public self-flagellation, has whole-heartedly embraced the idea that “we in the media” have “empowered” Donald Trump. This is incorrect. According to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, barely half of GOP primary voters said that they’d be satisfied with…
This Wednesday, North Carolina passed the most dangerous piece of anti-LGBT legislation in the country, restricting cities from passing nondiscrimination laws and preventing trans people from using bathrooms that represents their gender identity. All of this has been done in the name of so-called “religious freedom.” It was just moments after Skye Thompson, a transgender…
I was disappointed to hear that Rolling Stone had endorsed Hillary Clinton, but I also understood. In many ways, the endorsement by my boss and editor, Jann Wenner, read like the result of painful soul-searching, after this very magazine had a profound influence on a similar race, back in 1972. Sidebar Hillary Clinton for…
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is blasting rival Donald Trump for a National Enquirer story accusing Cruz of having five mistresses. Here’s a breakdown of how a week of fighting got us here. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) The National Enquirer (with which Donald Trump’s relationship has not been un-cozy*) released a story this week insisting that…
I understand the allure of the possible revelation that a world class stone thrower also abides in a glass house. But of all the reasons to be outraged about Ted Cruz, of all the nyah nyah nyah reasons to pick the guy apart, Friday’s explosive claims that the Republican presidential candidate has repeatedly cheated on…
The National Enquirer is reporting that Texas Senator Ted Cruz has had affairs with at least five different women — one of whom, according to its photo spread, is Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson: #CruzSexScandal #HurricaneKatrina #TrumpCard @DRUDGE_REPORT https://t.co/tw7fs9qAWT We found the exact image pic.twitter.com/9WXiVj3mCT — Rachel Scheinberg (@Fleet_Forest) March 25, 2016 Of course, the…
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz hugs his wife, Heidi, during a campaign rally in Charleston, South Carolina, on Feb. 19.Jim Watson/Getty Images One accomplishment of Donald Trump’s campaign for president has been to reveal that American politics had not previously been as degraded as some of us thought. Before he entered the scene, many…