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March 23, 2015 Bucky Turco

On Monday, Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz announced that despite being born in Canada, he will run for president, of the United States. Congratulations to the Texas senator, who’s easily the most qualified politician to give false hope to disenfranchised white people and then dash it all way the moment a slightly more serious Republican […]

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January 28, 2015 Norman Siegel

The blizzard of 2015, despite dire predictions, never materialized in New York City. However, the actions taken by public figures in anticipation of a severe storm raise serious questions and concerns. Foremost, is there a protocol for responding to extreme weather conditions? What is the process and criteria for declaring a “state of emergency”? A […]

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December 21, 2014 Bucky Turco

On Saturday, two NYPD cops were killed in Bed Stuy by a man who then took his own life with the same gun. At 2:47PM, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, walked up to the passenger side of a patrol car parked near near Myrtle and Tompkins Avenues, pulled out a silver Taurus handgun, and opened fire on […]

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December 17, 2014 Bucky Turco

Like two stubborn family members, Cuba and the U.S. got into a really bad argument decades ago that almost led to nuclear holocaust and they haven’t been friends ever since. And then today, the White House dropped a bombshell: Commissar Obama said he will seek to normalize relations between the two countries that severed diplomatic […]

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November 5, 2014 Bucky Turco

In its coverage of the midterm elections last night, NY1 conducted exit polls all across the city. The local news organization surveyed 575 people from 20 polling sites and for the most part, the data indicates that New York City is still a lot more blue than red. Here’s the breakdown on some of the […]

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November 4, 2014 Bucky Turco

Did you vote today? Of course you didn’t. It’s the midterm elections, the elections no one cares about. And for good reason. It represents the part of the political cycle when crazy right-wing politicians make modest gains in the House of Representatives (and sometimes the Senate), giving pundits endless fodder to speculate about how it’s […]

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October 21, 2014 Bucky Turco

Twenty two million. That’s the approximate population of Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, three Ebola-stricken countries that New York politicians from both sides of the aisle are looking to implement a travel ban on. Andrew Cuomo, New York’s frightfully cautious governor, said that the federal government should “seriously consider” restricting flights from the West African […]

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July 16, 2014 Sophie Weiner

There is mounting evidence that people with conservative politics are likely to have a “negativity bias,” a new cluster of studies from Behavioral And Brain Sciences reports. According to Mother Jones, the journal concluded that “liberals and conservatives disagree about politics in part because they are different people at the level of personality, psychology, and even traits like physiology and genetics.” […]

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July 10, 2014 Marina Galperina

An upcoming AES+F exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London has been cancelled. “Maybe it was an internal problem, or maybe it was a result of something in the political atmosphere,” AES+F art collective member Lev Evzovi told the Calvert Journal. “We just got an email that for some reason the exhibition was cancelled. The political atmosphere […]

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July 9, 2014 Bucky Turco

Matthew Hancock, a politician and Conservative member of British Parliament, posed for a photo in front of a graffiti-covered skatepark in London, but it was one tag in particular that stood out from the rest. It was the one that called for Prime Minister David Cameron, his boss, to be fired. “Sack Cameron!” read the […]

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