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Curry shares the inspiration for her new series, We’ll Meet Again, and reflects on the “verbal sexual harassment” she and others experienced at NBC’s morning show.
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Black was four years into a Ph.D. program when she decided to pursue a career in comedy. She’s now a writer and correspondent on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.
Progressive groups like Planned Parenthood have enjoyed a fundraising bonanza since the election of Donald Trump. The challenge for these groups is to use the windfall effectively.
The Internet is full of things, including a Reddit subgroup devoted to the act of eating an orange in the shower. We gave it a shot ourselves.
The tweeter-in-chief has brought a new level of notoriety to the social media company, but it hasn’t helped Twitter’s bottom line. Analysts say Trump-related harassment continues to hurt the platform.
Cybersecurity experts agree that if President Trump is using his old Android smartphone, it poses a big risk. The same experts say there are ways for Trump to tweet securely.
Large portions of the Internet have declared 2016 one of the worst years ever. That’s probably an inaccurate assessment, but it still says a lot about how we live online.
In our present political social life, we don’t just create political strife for ourselves, we seem to revel in it.
Last year was one of LGBT triumph: The Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal throughout the country. But in 2016, post-marriage LGBT activism has become more complicated, and more state-focused.
The annual event, hosted by the Catholic archbishop of New York, is supposed to be a friendly, funny meeting of the two major-party presidential nominees. Thursday night, it was something else.
Trump made headlines at the final debate when he refused to say he’d accept the results of the election. He says it would be unfair to ask him to accept the results of the November election now.
Most political experts agree that widespread voter fraud does not occur in the U.S. At Monday night’s rally in Green Bay, Donald Trump supporters said they didn’t foresee violence if he loses.
The conservative media figure posted several tweets implying that the National Hurricane Center and other officials are lying about the severity of the storm.
Donald Trump heads to Detroit on Saturday to attend a black church. Pundits suggest Trump’s outreach to black voters is really about persuading college-educated white voters that he’s open-minded.
The Republican Party has a black voter problem. African-Americans attending the GOP Convention in Cleveland are hoping Donald Trump can attract more of them.
The days leading up to California’s Democratic presidential primary offered a glimpse into everything that went right — and wrong — with Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid.
Tuesday’s Indiana primary could make it clear whether Donald Trump is on the path to clinching the GOP presidential nomination — or on his way to a contested convention.
Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley has backed Sanders, which could help him in Oregon’s May 17 primary. Hillary Clinton has far more endorsements from Congress — a big part of her superdelegate lead.