Texas‘ audit of the 2020 election results thus far hasn’t unveiled anything out of the ordinary, despite former President Donald Trump pushing for an examination of what he dubbed a “scam” election in the state he won comfortably. The Texas secretary of state’s office on New Year’s Eve released the …
Read More »Big Law Firms Promised to Punish Republicans Who Voted to Overthrow Democracy. Now They're Donating to Their Campaigns
WASHINGTON — In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, some of the country’s biggest law firms joined blue-chip corporations and other industry trade groups by halting all political donations and rethinking their giving strategy altogether. In a few cases, law firms vowed they wouldn’t give money to any of …
Read More »How ASMRtists Are Alleviating Our Collective Election Anxiety
During Election Night, as MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki manically bopped around in front of a heat map, tens of millions of Americans clenched their fists and collectively tried not to stroke out from anxiety. The antidote to that: a 22-minute YouTube video of a woman pretending to brush your hair. “I …
Read More »America Last: How Trump Torpedoed the U.S. International Standing
The United Nations General Assembly’s annual session is practically Coachella for international diplomacy. Every September, heads of state, ambassadors, deputies, and other foreign relations staff representing the organization’s nearly 200 member nations congregate in New York City to lay out the global agenda for the following year. Speeches are given. …
Read More »The Official January Rolling Stone Debate Drinking Game Rules
Weeks of candidate debate prep likely flew out the window Monday, when CNN dropped a bombshell story: Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren claimed Vermont’s Bernie Sanders told her a woman couldn’t win in 2020. By an amazing coincidence, CNN is hosting the last candidate debate before the Iowa caucus in Des …
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