Tag: Politics
Every four years, the airwaves are saturated with pundits, pollsters, and political scientists trying to predict who will be America’s next president. Most of them fail as often as they succeed, lost in the endless swings of campaign drama, poll fluctuations, and media noise. And then there’s Allan Lichtman, a distinguished political scientist at American […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.” […]
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 […]
