Democrats have lost ground with the working class for a simple reason: They became “globalist shills.” Under Bill Clinton’s leadership, the party enacted the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and normalized trade relations with China, policies that had devastating consequences for the American worker. Barack Obama had a chance to chart a different course,…
In the weeks since the election, I’ve been thinking about the woman who told me she’d heard that Kamala Harris “let in all the illegals who killed all those cops.” I met her when a few of us from Pod Save America were knocking doors in Las Vegas the Sunday before the election. She was…
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s prime minister said Monday that most Cabinet ministers are still working from offices in Damascus after rebels entered the capital over the weekend and overthrew President Bashar Assad. Streams of refugees crossed in from neighboring countries, hoping for a more peaceful future. But there were already signs of the difficulties…
Here’s some quick, inside baseball: An entertainment website like ours relies on a mix of traffic from search, referrals, and our regular, everyday audience to survive. It used to be that referrals—i.e., Facebook—dominated, so a lot of sites wrote with Facebook in mind (I’m sure you remember the Upworthy-like headlines). Many of those sites also…
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Photo: @kymillman Instagram One of the most anticiapted events in the Abu Dhabi events calendar is, of course, the Formula 1 weekend. Always a spectacle, the Grand Prix finale that took the UAE by storm this weekend. With celebrities, both international and global, in attendance, an unapologetic sense of style arrived at the famed Yas…
Jay-Z has been accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs in the early 2000s. In an amended lawsuit filed Sunday, an Alabama woman — identified anonymously as Jane Doe — claims the billionaire music mogul, born Shawn Carter, and Combs drugged and raped her at an after-party following the MTV Video…
Seth Wickersham, ESPN Senior WriterDec 12, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Close Senior Writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine Joined ESPN The Magazine after graduating from the University of Missouri. Although he primarily covers the NFL, his assignments also have taken him to the Athens Olympics, the World Series, the NCAA tournament and the NHL…
Two days after Jay-Z and Beyonce were rocked by a lawsuit alleging that he and Sean “Diddy” Combs raped a 13-year-old girl in 2000, the mega-star couple have to contend with an evacuation warning affecting their new $200 million Malibu estate, due to the rapidly spreading Franklin Fire in the oceanside community. Celebrities like Barbra…
During the lead-up to the Academy Awards, it’s common for an A-list celebrity to join a feature documentary as an executive producer. The addition of a boldface name to a doc title creates buzz and involves little to no legwork for the celebrity. But ever since the doc marketplace fell into disarray several years ago,…