Good evening! In case any of this is starting to feel normal, here’s a real thing published by Steve Bannon’s funhouse mirror of a news site pic.twitter.com/ahHsrJ8pxZ — Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) November 19, 2016 A Breitbart Milo Yiannopoulos post from 2015 is making the viral rounds, not least because (see above) the headline and accompanying…
Lawrence Summers, a former top economic aide to President Barack Obama and a Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, has withdrawn from consideration to succeed Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve chairman, the president said on Sunday. “Earlier today, I spoke with Larry Summers and accepted his decision to withdraw his name from consideration for Chairman…
Here’s a status update Facebook probably won’t be happy about: Several dozen feminist activists are descending on the company’s Manhattan office to protest that not one woman sits on Facebook’s board of directors. It is somewhat surprising, even given the board’s small size (7), since its second-higest-ranking executive at the social network company, COO Sheryl…
Shimon Peres likes to bill his Israeli Presidential Conference, the star-studded international talkfest that he’s convening in Jerusalem this week for the third time (the previous ones were in 2008 and 2009) as a Davos-style gathering of great minds to consider the great issues of the day. And it is that, in part. But like…
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