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By now we’ve all heard Lena Dunham’s comments from an interview she participated in with Amy Schumer where the two discussed NFL star New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr., who Dunham was seated next to at the Met Gala last week. What the comments boil down to is yet another example of entitlement and…
It took 15 days to end the mighty 20-year reign of Roger Ailes at Fox News, one of the most storied runs in media and political history. Ailes built not just a conservative cable news channel but something like a fourth branch of government; a propaganda arm for the GOP; an organization that determined Republican…
Photo: Mark Davis/WireImage Even in the truly bizarre lineup of guests at the Roast of Rob Lowe, one non-comedian, non-actor, magnet-of-hate, Ann Coulter, really had trouble selling her “sense of humor” to the crowd. Coulter has since claimed credit for writing most of her own jokes, which is a bold…
The 2013 film “The Wolf of Wall Street” received harsh criticism for its depiction of women as two-dimensional trophy wives, money-grubbing secretaries who sleep with their bosses, and prostitutes and strippers who served as a backdrop to a group of drug-fueled man-child stock brokers. But Martin Scorsese’s depiction of Reagan-era excess in America’s financial capital,…
Photo A floating cage containing hundreds of oysters was pulled into Jamaica Bay from Bayswater Point State Park in Queens on Thursday. Credit Dave Sanders for The New York Times Torrential rain poured down on the team of scientists and conservationists on Jamaica Bay as their small boat slowly towed about 85 cages packed with…
Majel Barrett as Nurse Christine Chapel season 1, episode 7 of “Star Trek: The Original Series.” CBS via Getty Images Not so long ago, the concept of a virtual assistant that could listen to your questions and provide answers was purely the realm of science fiction. In fact, it wouldn’t be unfair at all to…
Acting on behalf of deposed Fox News honcho Roger Ailes and wife Elizabeth, attorney Charles Harder – Hulk Hogan’s libel lawyer – has requested that New York magazine and writer Gabriel Sherman preserve all documents pertaining to the Ailes, a not-so-subtle threat of possible legal action in response to the magazine’s damning article about sexual…
Despite progress in recent decades, women remain underrepresented (or not represented at all) in many aspects of political and civic life. In the United States, the current Congress is about 20 percent female; there has not (yet) been a female president (out of 44 in total); and the first female Supreme Court justice, Sandra Day…
Robby Mook, the Clinton campaign manager, said 2.3 million people had contributed to the campaign, which has significantly increased the number of donors who give online in small increments. The public has gotten used to seeing Mrs. Clinton’s carefully choreographed appearances and her somewhat halting speeches and TV interviews over the course of the long…
Matt, a father in his early 40s with soulful eyes, thinning hair and a ready smile, is doing his best to explain why he has a more intense relationship with his son than he does with his daughter. Over a mojito at a bar in Brooklyn, near the flat he shares with his wife and…