Not only is Hillary Clinton creating a frenzy of 2016 election speculation and my favorite internet memes, but she’s also brought blood clots into the media spotlight. While the buzz has gone down, and you rarely hear commentators on CNN analyzing deep leg thrombosis anymore, the incident stuck with me. I, too, have blood clots. […]
Best: Hillary Clinton is pushing for businesses to develop paid apprenticeship rather than unpaid internship programs in order to create skilled jobs for young people who will then be able to move smoothly into the workforce. The internship industry has been widely criticized for exploiting young, unemployed workers for free labor. Unemployment for young adults […]
It’s no secret millennials tend to lean left, or that Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign drew on unprecedented levels of support from this demographic. Thus, fully cognizant of whom much of their audience might be this year, the Democratic convention’s digital director, Kelli Klein, spoke with Mic last week about “crafting an experience that works for a generation likely to […]
Conservative shock jock Glenn Beck is very angry about a lot of things. One in particular? Politicians who opposed marriage equality before they supported it — not because Beck himself actually cares about marriage equality, mind you — he just thinks these politicians are hypocrites. And the biggest hypocrite of them all is Hillary Clinton, […]
It’s time to end the criminalization of HIV in America. That’s precisely what Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton argued in a speech given at the “HIV Is Not a Crime” convention, held in Huntsville, Alabama earlier this month. In her address, she pledged to “enforce civil rights laws to fight HIV-related discrimination, stigma, and injustice,” […]
You know a trend is over when a 69-year-old grandmother in a red pantsuit gets in on it. Which is why everyone should be glad presidential candidate Hillary Clinton did the “Mannequin Challenge” on her private campaign plane with her staff, reporters, and Jon Bon Jovi after her rally Monday night. Also, spotted? Her aide […]
As Election Day nears, almost 40 percent of Americans have already cast their ballots by mail, and right now, Five Thirty Eight predicts there is only a 0.5 percent chance of a tie in the electoral college between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. But considering how the commanding lead Clinton held over […]
Earlier this week, The Washington Post conducted a poll looking at the presidential preferences of parents based on whether they exclusively have daughters, sons, or both. The results probably won’t surprise you a whole lot — parents with only daughters overwhelmingly support Hillary Clinton for president over Donald Trump. The numbers look something like this: Polled parents of just daughters […]
For a brief, uncomfortable moment this summer, Americans everywhere experienced a feeling they had never previously known: admiration for failed Republican presidential candidate and known homophobe Ted Cruz, when he humiliated Donald Trump by refusing to endorse the nominee at the GOP convention. However, months later, Cruz did a complete 180 and endorsed Trump in a lengthy AF […]
