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“Hillary Clinton Is Again Put on the Defensive Over Perceived Ties to Wall Street,” the New York Times frets today. Whatever could be going on here? What is the deal, Democratic voters? Dozens of prominent economists and academic experts have endorsed her plans to regulate the financial sector. Her policies would “try to prevent the…
Apologies for the Bill Maher clip, but here’s feminist icon Gloria Steinem offering an interesting theory as to why so many young women are supporting Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton. In the middle of a larger discussion about the Democratic primary, Steinem said: “Women are more for [Hillary Clinton] than men are…First of all,…
VICE reporter Ben Anderson talks about facing captured ISIS soldiers and more in tonight’s VICE on HBO Debrief of “Fighting ISIS.” VICE returns on Friday, February 5 at 11PM, exclusively on HBO Watch Season 1: http://bit.ly/VICE-HBO-S1Watch Season 2: http://bit.ly/VICE-HBO-S2-E1 Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-VideosVideos, daily editorial…
Photo Donald J. Trump at the University of Iowa in Iowa City on Tuesday. On any day, Mr. Trump’s entry on Wikipedia usually attracts more views than those any of his Republican rivals. Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times For a website with no paid writing staff that is still overcoming an out-of-date…
Famed atheist and of-late-anti-PC crusader Richard Dawkins is again in hot water after retweeting images of a parody book called “The Social Justice Delusion” (a spoof of his best-seller, “The God Delusion”), which was meant to criticize the supposed double-standards of political correctness. Though ostensibly par-for-the-course for Dawkins’ Twitter ethos, the jacket (go figure) featured…
Marijuana has been legal in the District of Columbia since February of last year. But walking around, you would be hard pressed to notice any sign that the weed has indeed been freed. Sure, most any large American city smells like marijuana these days. But unlike other states where pot is legal, there are no…
On Monday, over 10 full months since Ted Cruz became the first candidate to announce that he was running for president in 2016, Iowa will hold its first-in-the-nation caucuses. After that, both the Democratic and Republican primaries will go straight through for four months, with some state parties holding primaries and caucuses on different dates than…
While most morning news programs devoted much of their Monday coverage to tonight’s highly anticipated Iowa caucuses, Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” took some time to examine the importance of the African American vote on this first day of Black History Month, only to blast black voters for “slavish support” of the Democratic Party. Guest…
Monday in Iowa, caucus-goers throughout the Hawkeye State will make their choice — and the 2016 presidential election, which has already dominated the news for the better part of a year, will finally begin. The start is almost finished; so if you’re still breathing, congratulations. You may make it out of this thing yet. Now, traditionally,…