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It’s been one month since Georgia’s high-profile governor’s race between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp, a contest which was marred by voting problems and accusations of voter suppression. Now, a runoff election in the state is giving voters a chance…
Memorial services for President George H.W. Bush began on Monday and will take place for four days until he is laid to rest in Texas on Thursday. Bush died on Friday at the age of 94 and this week will…
President Donald Trump’s victory lap on a temporary detente in the trade war with China might be a little premature — and misleading. In a series of tweets over the weekend, the president celebrated the modest compromise on trade he…
On Monday, Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio announced in a post on the staff blog that explicit visual content will be banned from the site starting on December 17. That means no more sex acts, no more nudity, and no more…
No one, to my knowledge, has attempted a systematic study to identify the funniest year on record, but I feel safe in saying that 2018 wasn’t it. But isn’t laughter the best medicine? The answer, at least according to the…
The bleakness of early winter—the short, hazy days, the bony trees, the way the sky grows dense and unanimated, a sagging gray blanket—can, on the right day, seem nearly funny. “Death smiles at us all; all we can do is…
