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Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images for Politicon Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) communication director Ian Walters sparked controversy with what was seen as a racially charged insult on Friday night. Walters said told hundreds of dinner guests, “We elected Mike Steele as chairman because he was a black guy, that was the wrong thing to do.” Steele […]
This week at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference Facebook chose to maintain a booth for attendees that includes an Oculus virtual reality demo. Now This writer Sean Morrow noticed that it included a demo of a shooting game, Bullet Train, where players teleport around a train station killing waves of masked enemies. The timing […]
Pakistani transgender activist and dancer Jannat Ali has felt like an impostor at times, her gender identity repeatedly challenged. It took years of sleepless nights for her to summon the courage to come out to her parents. But at a TEDx event in Lahore last October, she was swamped by men and women seeking autographs […]
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has targeted Twitter, after the social media giant took steps to curb abuse on its platform. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a59692ec676961b88bac336/master/pass/OKeefeTwitterLawsuit.jpg
Published time: 8 Jan, 2018 13:01 Edited time: 8 Jan, 2018 13:12 The conservative party has deleted a tweet announcing its new chairman, adding a touch of drama to Monday’s cabinet reshuffle. Chris Grayling was announced as chairman, causing a stir online when the tweet was retracted. What had been expected to be a run-of-the-mill […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel is looking to develop a conservative cable-news outlet to rival Fox News, BuzzFeed News reports. Thiel had been working on the project with Fox News founder Roger Ailes before Ailes died in May, but has since moved forward with the project, according to the report. Thiel, who sits […]
mpi43/MediaPunch Senate Republicans narrowly passed their tax plan overhaul. But many conservative economists and former government officials are predicting that the bill will drive up the deficit, destabilize the health care market, exacerbate income inequality, and lead to cuts to social programs. As Republicans in the House and Senate hash out their tax bill differences in a […]
Tina Fineberg/AP Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat and 2020 frontrunner, waded into a congressional fight between two Democrats earlier this month. Gillibrand’s endorsement of Marie Newman, who is challenging a “blue dog” incumbent in Illinois, was followed by endorsements from several prominent liberal groups this week. The race is one of just a […]
Updated on November 29 at 6:13 p.m. ET The fate of the Republican tax overhaul is coming down to a confrontation between the Senate’s few remaining deficit hawks and the GOP’s most ardent tax-slashers. It’s a fight that has been building for months and now centers on a proposal from Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee […]
Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images Forty British members of parliament from Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party have agreed to sign a letter of no-confidence in her. 48 are required to trigger a party leadership contest. An earlier attempt to unseat May after her disastrous speech at the annual party conference fizzled out. May has […]
