A group of students at Wesleyan University are demanding “safe space” for students of color and declaring they intend to “dispose of” copies of the school newspaper found on campus until their demands are met. The demands arose after the paper ran an opinion piece critical of the Black Lives Matter movement last week.
No matter what the FBI finds in the recently retrieved emails on her recently seized private server, one thing is already clear: Hillary Clinton, and her political team, have repeatedly, intentionally tried to mislead the public as they sought to downplay the story.
The Office of Personnel Management announced Wednesday that 5.6 million sets of fingerprints were taken in the data breach which impacted 21.5 million government workers. Previously, OPM had said the number of sets of fingerprints taken was 1.1 million.
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates has written some controversial pieces for the Atlantic, including one defending reparations for slavery and another arguing the public shift on the Trayvon Martin case was based on opposition to President Obama. Next year, Coates will become a different kind of author when takes on a year-long story about Black Panther, the first mainstream black superhero, for Marvel comics.
Jeet Heer is a senior editor at the New Republic. Tuesday afternoon, he jumped on a story published by Talking Points Memo in which Jeb Bush is seen using the word “retarded.”
Is there such a thing as a virtuous pedophile? That’s the claim made in a piece published Monday by Salon. But it’s worth asking just how virtuous the author really is.
Social media came alive Monday afternoon with the discovery of a 14 second video of a rat dragging a slice of pizza down a flight of stairs in New York.
A poll of Republican voters who saw Wednesday night’s debate found Carly Fiorina the clear winner and suggests Donald Trump did not help himself with viewers.
The ex-secretary of the Nobel Committee says in a soon-to-be-released book that awarding the Peace Prize to Barack Obama in 2009 did not have the desired effect.
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather has endorsed the accuracy of Truth, a film which tells the story of his own downfall in what has come to be known as Rathergate.
A bill being considered in Congress would require universities to notify police about reports of sexual assault or else forego punishment for the accused.
President Obama criticized progressive campus culture during a speech Monday saying he is not a fan of the safe spaces/call-out culture being fashioned by his own base.
Carly Fiorina released a new campaign ad titled “Faces” on Monday which, while never mentioning Donald Trump by name, springboards off widely reported comments he made and then distanced himself from last week.
Hillary Clinton did not want to apologize for her decision to use a private email server while Secretary of State. She was finally convinced to do so over the last week after aides ran a focus group and later directed her friends to speak directly to the candidate about the need to shift her approach.
David Brock, top attack dog at progressive site Media Matters, is unleashing an attack on a surprising target.
Hillary Clinton made a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio Thursday, but only a couple hundred people turned out to hear her views on women’s issues.
Sheriff Rusty Hierholzer of Kerr County, Texas, says it is time for the silent majority who support the good work of police to stand up and counter the narratives being spread through media and by the Obama administration.
More than 20 percent of the people who signed up for Obamacare plans on state and federal exchanges for 2015 have since dropped their coverage.
A 911 caller made death threats against police in Aurora, Colorado on Sunday night. Police are said to be on high alert after the threat.
Hillary Clinton has the lowest favorability rating she has ever had since she stepped onto the national stage in 1992.
Vox has published a new defense of the Black Lives Matter movement which argues that, aside from a few riots, the group is “largely peaceful.”
Was Hillary Clinton’s private email server hacked? The FBI is trying to answer that question as part of its investigation into possible mishandling of classified information.
Bryan Pagliano, the State Department staffer who maintained Hillary Clinton’s private email server, is attempting to dodge a subpoena issued by Rep. Trey Gowdy’s House Select committee on Benghazi.
In 2008, Paul Krugman suggested the Obama campaign was veering dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. Krugman appears to have forgotten he once said this, since he wrote Tuesday that Democrats don’t create cults of personality around unworthy politicians.
Paul Krugman’s latest column at the NY Times uses the 10th anniversary of hurricane Katrina as a pretext to attack the Republican presidential field. Midway through his shallow, lazy partisan screed Krugman uncorks the laugh-out-loud line of the day:
