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It’s “senior week” at our parent company Gawker Media, a time to write what we really want to write, though that’s kind of what our sites have been doing for the past 14 years. What’s the occasion? Someone new is about to buy us, likely with a plan to infuse Kotaku’s budget with about a…
The presidential hopeful has insulted reporter Katy Tur on national TV, called her names during interviews, and made his campaign seemingly impossible to cover. Here, her no-holds-barred account of trailing the most unlikely candidate in GOP history. by KATY TUR, PHOTOGRAPH BY REBECCA GREENFIELD AUG 10, 2016 20.5k In a speech carried live from Mount Pleasant,…
Carol Danvers has a long and peculiar history as first Ms. Marvel, and later Captain Marvel—one that’s strange even by comic book standards. So it should be no surprise that for her upcoming movie, the hero will be given a new and updated origin. Speaking to the Any Time with Vin Forte podcast, Captain Marvel…
Donald Trump holds up a sign printed from the internet at a rally in Sunrise, Florida on August 10, 2016 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Donald Trump has said before that all he knows is what he sees on the internet. And that became crystal clear at a rally in Florida yesterday when he held up a…
Members of the US Women’s National Soccer Team are pushing for higher pay. It is as traditional as the Olympic flame: For two weeks every two years, media outlets actually care about female athletes. Despite the huge fanbases rooting for women’s soccer, basketball, and tennis, it’s rare to see pro female athletes on TV—in 2014,…
(Photo: Warner Bros. ) When you bring together a group of the most dangerous baddies of the DC Universe, you’ve got to allow room for a few quirks. I mean, c’mon, Suicide Squad has the ever-odd Harley Quinn in its roster, so of course there’s going to be a few weird things going on…
During The CW’s TCA Upfronts it was revealed that we will be seeing a new dark speedster in The Flash season 3, and it is none other than Savitar. If you don’t know the name: In the comics Savitar is a Cold War pilot test pilot who is struck by lightning during a flight mission. His name comes from…
08.11.16How Clinton Enables the Republican Party08.10.16If I were worried that Clinton might lose, here’s what I would—and wouldn’t—do…08.09.16Sam Tanenhaus on William Styron on Nat Turner: Have we moved on from the Sixties? The Nineties?08.09.16My First Seven Jobs07.31.16Trump’s Indecent Proposal07.30.16Why does it matter that Donald Trump is not a novelty?07.29.16Philadelphia Stories: From Reagan to Trump to…
In a segment on Last Week Tonight that has now been viewed millions of times, John Oliver turned his attention to changes in the news industry. He highlighted the pressures facing journalists who keep elected officials and institutions honest and imagined a future in which investigations like the one dramatized in the Oscar-winning movie Spotlight…
Earlier today, Hillary Clinton tweeted to her over eight million followers that Barack Obama is not, in fact, the founder of ISIS. At the time of publication, that tweet has been retweeted roughly 6,000 times and “faved” 10,000 times, which is fine. It’s a fine tweet. But Hillary—we can do better. Let us do better….