The snapshot showed an elderly woman doing what thousands of Americans are doing this week: mailing her ballot for the presidential election. Yet it also captured the surreal nature of being a citizen at this precise moment in American history. The voter in question — 102-year-old Beatrice Lumpkin — was born in 1918, a year…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fulfilled her civic duty this week, electing to vote early in the midterm elections. Ginsburg was spotted handing her ID to poll volunteers on Tuesday, as seen in photos tweeted by Matt McDermott, a senior analyst at New York-based Whitman Insight Strategies. A friend spotted RBG voting early today. Be like…
In the hours following Taylor Swift’s Instagram post urging people in Tennessee to vote for Democratic nominees for U.S Senate and Congress Phil Bredesen and Jim Cooper, there was a spike in voter registration. View this post on Instagram I’m writing this post about the upcoming midterm elections on November 6th, in which…
The more things change, the more they stay the same? A comprehensive new study done by CBS News and Refinery29 asked the tiresome but necessary question: What Do Women Want? Specifically, it surveyed 2,093 American adult women about their political opinions, with a focus on millennials — 18-35-year-olds. 70% of millennial women said things in…
Oprah gave a pitch-perfect commencement speech at my school’s graduation, a mix of motivation (“Be the truth. Be. The. Truth.”) and motivation shtick (“Invest in a quality mattress. And don’t cheap out on your shoes.”). The exhortation that won the biggest rise from the thousand USC Annenberg students: “Vote. Vote. Vote.” Their cheers almost made…
The rabbi who served in Newtown, Conn. during the deadly school shooting there in 2012 and is now running for Congress received just a single vote during the state’s Democratic convention on Monday. “When I was called to the Sandy Hook firehouse to counsel the families whose children and loved ones were murdered, I answered…
Jimmy Kimmel had a novel response to the news that Jared Kushner had registered to vote in New York as a woman and that the real estate scion had used private email services in his White House work: lock her up. “I say, lock her up, lock her up, lock her up,” said Kimmel on…
Israel’s Labor Party is not that innocent – it’s delayed its leadership election because of a Britney Spears concert slated to take place on the same day as voting. Party sources told Ha’aretz the postponement was more due to logistical concerns than to deference for the American pop star, who will take the stage at…
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