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On December 2nd, GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump gave an interview to the New York Times in which he said that the next president needs to project toughness, and that Harrison Ford’s performance in “Air Force One” was a model of such projection. “My favorite was Harrison Ford on the plane,” Trump said. “I love…
Over a long weekend on assignment for Playboy magazine, Mark Bowden found that behind the garish Trump façade lies only more ugliness. I spent a long, awkward weekend with Donald Trump in November 1996, an experience I feel confident neither of us would like to repeat. He was like one of those characters in an…
Hundreds of activists gathered outside of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York City’s Columbus Circle on Thursday evening for a demonstration in solidarity with Syrian and Iraqi refugees. The protest was organized to coincide with International Human Rights Day. The organizers of the rally said protesters were there “to say no to the…
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The issue that the most Americans regard as the most important one facing our country right now is terrorism. Fear is more powerful than reason. Not that there has ever been a reason to doubt that. The American public’s priorities are a bizarro version of Short Attention Span Theater, with issues constantly flickering in and…
—Inae Oh on Tue. December 15, 2015 9:15 AM PDT As a Black Lives Matter protester was forcibly removed from a Donald Trump rally on Monday, supporters of the Republican frontrunner were heard yelling “kick his ass” and “light the motherfucker on fire.” And about ten minutes into the Trump rally, this happens. pic.twitter.com/65pXHjsJ3x…
Sen. Ted Cruz, left, speaks with Donald Trump during a Tea Party Patriots rally against the Iran nuclear deal on Capitol Hill. (Pete Marovich/Bloomberg News) The ’80s synthpop classic “Maniac” tells the story of a “steel-town girl” trying to make it as a dancer in a world where “no one sees her at all.” It’s…
SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand (AP) — Every morning at 2 a.m., they heard a kick on the door and a threat: Get up or get beaten. For the next 16 hours, No. 31 and his wife stood in the factory that owned them with their aching hands in ice water. They ripped the guts, heads, tails…
They’re coming for you, Trump Don’t you just love the smell of Republican Civil War in the morning? Republican officials and leading figures in the party’s establishment are now preparing for the possibility of a brokered convention as Donald Trump continues sit atop the polls and the presidential race. Seriously, we just cummed all over…
Also, Reince Priebus will be uninvited from my birthday party Doctor Ben Carson would like you all to know he is not one bit pleased about these murmurings that the GOP establishment is plotting to deny the nomination to Donald Trump — or to Ben Carson, which could totally still happen, he thinks. And by…