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You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Special thanks to Harry Enten, who is rad and helped identify those aforementioned numbers buried inside the New Hampshire news today. 5 Guess what y’all, we have a New Hampshire primary-based SigDig today. Five is the number of towns and…
Why I Put Some Ice on That Bern Alternatively titled: “Why I support Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders” As a 19 year-old progressive college student with a penchant for supporting LGBT rights, college affordability, and electoral finance reform, my vote this election cycle should be obvious. “There’s only one candidate who’s firmly supported a myriad…
The comments made by Madeleine Albright about the “special place in hell reserved for women who do not help other women” certainly caught my attention this weekend. While the implications were that those who support Bernie Sanders might find themselves suffering eternal damnation, which I reject, I will leave it to other more capable experts…
Senator Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton among nearly every demographic group in the Democratic New Hampshire primary, according to exit polls. He carried majorities of both men and women. He won among those with and without college degrees. He won among gun owners and non-gun owners. He beat Mrs. Clinton among previous primary voters and…
There’s a scrappy quality to Full Frontal, the new TBS late night talk show led by former Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee. Confident and natural on stage, the host—who’s currently (as no one’s been able to let her forget) the only woman in late night—strikes out immediately with a fury that’s startling and invigorating. The…
Here is a video of Jeb Bush struggling to dress himself: You are no doubt thinking words of pity about poor dumb pathetic Jeb, but don’t do that. Don’t you dare. Because this awkward moment was not captured by some devious macaca liberal with an iThing, smeared across the interwebs to humiliate the sorry son…
I’m a feminist of a certain age. I earned degrees in STEM before the term existed and have made a career in computer science. During the years when feminism was a dirty word, I used it frequently. When Hillary Clinton ran in 2008, I enthusiastically supported her. My husband reminds me that when he first…
Claim: The state of Michigan has passed a law banning oral and anal sex. mostly false: WHAT’S TRUE: The Michigan senate amended a portion of the state penal code dealing with animal cruelty without removing old, unenforceable language that criminalizes sodomy. WHAT’S FALSE: Michigan has passed a new law banning oral and anal sex….
It’s been widely and wrongly reported in recent days that Michigan passed a law making oral and/or anal sex illegal. A better way to put it: existing language making oral and anal sex illegal might stay on the books, because nobody wants to fight about it, because it would get messy. The story has exploded…
Bill Clinton has decided to start attacking his wife’s opponent for the Democratic nomination for president, since that worked so well eight years ago. At a rally in New Hampshire on Sunday, Bill mocked Bernie Sanders’s desire for “revolution” and accused Sanders supporters of sexism. Per the New York Times, Clinton portrayed Sanders as “hypocritical,…