Trump Family Newspaper Decides to Endorse Trump
Hamilton Nolan · 04/12/16 04:08PMBillionaire Tech Mogul Holds Safest Possible Belief
Ashley Feinberg · 04/12/16 03:47PMBuzzFeed Got a Haircut
J.K. Trotter · 04/12/16 03:05PM
Last Friday, the media industry toasted BuzzFeed for successfully drawing the attention of nearly 800,000 Facebook users to a livestream of two employees wrapping hundreds of rubber bands around a watermelon until the fruit exploded. The gambit capped another quarter of widespread confidence in BuzzFeed’s business model, which sells native advertising against a mix of silly listicles and enterprise reporting published on an ever-increasing number of third-party platforms, with everything heavily underwritten by periodic injections of venture capital.
Hamilton Nolan · 04/12/16 02:55PM
NYPD Kicks Family Out of Their Apartment Because Former Occupant Sold Drugs There
Andy Cush · 04/12/16 02:47PMPeople Are Terrible at Estimating Risk Because Our Brains Are Flawed and the Media Is Bad
Hamilton Nolan · 04/12/16 02:07PMThe Missouri Primary Finally Has Winners
Jordan Sargent · 04/12/16 01:38PMWhy Is the Internet Obsessed With Photos of Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin?
J.K. Trotter · 04/12/16 01:05PM
For the past several days, including today, the most trafficked piece of content on Politico.com has been a slideshow of 17 wire pictures featuring Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton and her long-time aide Huma Abedin in various settings, including the 2008 campaign trail and several countries Clinton visited as Secretary of State. Its description refers to Abedin as Clinton’s “body woman”—an appellation borrowed, it seems, from a 2006 Observer article—and Abedin’s job as “assisting the former secretary of state’s move back into her private life.” Its title is, “How close are Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton?”
Trump and Cruz Are Tearing Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum Apart
Andy Cush · 04/12/16 11:58AM
On Monday evening, reporters received two vastly different press releases from members of Eagle Forum, the conservative interest group. One, sent by Anne Cori, the group’s newly appointed executive director, alleged that a telephone meeting between Eagle Forum board members held that afternoon “[ensured] that Eagle Forum will continue long into the future as a viable force.” The other, sent by Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum’s 91-year-old founder, called that same meeting “improper,” “unprecedented,” and “invalid.”
Bill de Blasio Concludes "CP Time" Joke Was Funny, People Just Didn't Get It
Gabrielle Bluestone · 04/12/16 11:45AMAll of the Following People Are Older Than Ted Cruz
Jordan Sargent · 04/12/16 11:35AMThis Argument in British Parliament Is Just Extremely Good Shit
Jordan Sargent · 04/12/16 11:11AMHere we have Labour MP Dennis Skinner addressing British prime minister David Cameron with a pithy schoolyard nickname related to Panama Papers revelations as their colleagues howl around them in a mixture of delight and disgust. It crescendoes in Skinner delivering a thunderous applause line and then being tossed out of Parliament by a guy who looks like this:
Clinton Loyalist Claims to Have Enough Oppo to “Knock Trump Tower Down to the Sub-Basement”
Gabrielle Bluestone · 04/12/16 10:56AMFriendly Fire in the American Patriot Death Cult
Brendan O'Connor · 04/12/16 10:15AM
One afternoon in early January, just outside the small, north Texas town of Pottsboro, Vincent Smith shot and killed his friend, Charles Carter, who was drunk. The two were members of the American patriot movement, and they had been organizing, through Facebook, a march of gun rights evangelists on Washington. According to those who knew him, just before he was killed, Carter was expressing an interest in acquiring the makings of a bomb. The march imploded, just feet from where it began, before it ever got on the road.
Less Affordable Housing Means Less Economic Mobility
Hamilton Nolan · 04/12/16 10:05AMBill O'Reilly Is Still a Racist Motherfucker
Jordan Sargent · 04/12/16 09:51AMBill O’Reilly is not the worst person on Fox News—except for when he definitely is, as in last night’s wild and racist discussion with Donald Trump about black people.
Planned Parenthood Shooter Idolized Florida Man Executed for Shooting an Abortion Provider
Brendan O'Connor · 04/12/16 09:30AM
Recently unsealed court documents detail the disturbing worldview of self-proclaimed “warrior for the babies” Robert L. Dear Jr., who killed three people and left nine wounded in a shooting at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs last fall. Dear told police he was “upset with them performing abortions and the selling of baby parts.”