A longtime editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post resigned from her position Friday after the newspaper rejected a cartoon that depicted tech and entertainment giants — including Post owner Jeff Bezos — kneeling before President-elect Donald Trump. Ann Telnaes, who worked at the Post since 2008 and previously won a …
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Early in the 2016 campaign, months before Donald Trump won his first presidential nomination, I wrote my friend Philip Roth an email about his novel, The Plot Against America, which had appeared twelve years earlier. The book was Roth’s fanciful but chilling fiction about a fascist takeover of the presidency …
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In a spectacular display of mental gymnastics, The Washington Post‘s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos took to the opinion section to defend his decision to kill the newspaper’s planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. Despite arguing several years ago that the Post “has an incredible role to play” in our …
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The world may see its first-ever trillionaire within the next 10 years, the anti-poverty group Oxfam said in a report published on Monday, reflecting the increasingly large wealth divide between the few of the world’s richest people and the rest of the population below them. Oxfam’s report, titled Inequality Inc., …
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UPDATE (3/17): Pete Davidson is no longer heading to space with Blue Origin. The company announced the news less than a week before the actor was scheduled to embark on the trip. “Blue Origin’s 20th flight of New Shepard has shifted to Tuesday, March 29,” the space exploration company said …
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