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On Tuesday, former First Lady Laura Bush attributed our national bigotry to a phase, like a high schooler suddenly and inexplicably calling all of her friends, “Dude.” “We go through these periods where we’re xenophobic and we’re just gonna stay home and we’re gonna be on our own and we’re doing fine and to hell…
On Tuesday evening, John Kasich won the primary in his home state, Ohio. The win is whatever—it doesn’t do much to put a dent in Donald Trump’s major lead—but it did give us this video of the campaign celebrating. Watch Kasich pump his arms and give hunched, intimate hugs to his colleagues. Watch him give…
Breitbart, a.k.a. Donald Trump’s Xanga, recently saw an exodus of staffers, after the publication refused to defend Michelle Fields’ report that Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski grabbed and pulled her to the ground. Staffers resigned, calling the publication “Trump’s Pravda,” and an “unaffiliated media super PAC for the Trump campaign.” Now, Breitbart has reportedly sent…
Earlier this month, the Oregon police produced a video recorded inside the truck of LaVoy Finicum, the radical gunman who helped occupy a federal bird refuge before he was ultimately shot to death in a highway confrontation. Now, you can watch the militiaman practically beg to be killed in the final moments of his life….
Bernie Sanders supporters have been unhappy with The Times in recent months, but it looked as if they were beginning to have their moment in the sun on Monday morning. An article by Jennifer Steinhauer, published online, carried the headline “Bernie Sanders Scored Victories for Years via Legislative Side Doors.” It described the way the…
Bimbo. Dog. Fat pig. These are just a few of the things Donald Trump has called women. And the big political ad making waves this week in the 2016 presidential primary, featuring Trump quotes recited by women on screen, didn’t leave it there. A full 60 seconds elapse of horrifying, misogynist nonsense, and as…
“This guy is going to be remembered as a guy who possibly destroyed the republic,” he added. Kasich won his home state of Ohio on Tuesday night, complicating the delegate math for Trump as the GOP front-runner looks to lock up the nomination before the party’s convention in July. “I think any…
Donald Trump has used a wide array of tactics to contrast his tough-talking machismo with the supposed wimpiness of his rivals, from “Little Marco” Rubio to “low-energy” Jeb Bush. On Wednesday, he trained his sights on Hillary Clinton, using his Instagram account to post an ad against his likely November opponent. Trump’s short Instagram video features…
“Did you happen to vote in the election this November, or did things come up that kept you from voting?” It’s a straightforward question, but the answers yielded some interesting results. One-in-six (16%) of those who say they “definitely voted” in the 2014 midterm election have no record of voting in commercially available national voter…
Still: PBS Last night, PBS NewsHour ran a story on the Tilly family of Fayetteville, North Carolina. The Tillys do not have a history of being active in politics, but various members of the family—both old and young—are being motivated to vote or work for a campaign for the first time by Donald Trump. If…