Month: November 2017

You Can’t Wrestle With Stupid

Sometimes, you see or hear a person say something so dense that it seems like it could suck all the sentience in the universe into its black hole of stupidity. This is one of those times. The irony of an ABC reporter (whose...

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‘White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy’

The media isn’t diverse – and this leads to appalling reporting | The Guardian | The well-deserved outcry regarding the New York Times’ insufficiently critical profile [NYT] about a Nazi in the American...

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Trump Strikes Back at Elizabeth Warren

I’ve burned myself out on the #TrumpRussia issue for today. I’ve got a lot more fascinating stuff in the pipeline but each one of these pieces is exhausting to write. There’s a temptation to try to explain...

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The Odd Chabad Connection Between Putin and Trump

Three days before the presidential election, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump visited the Queens gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and, according to The Times of Israel, they prayed for Donald Trump’s victory....

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