China wants to get in on the credit racket. At the moment, most Chinese citizens don't have credit scores, unlike in the United States, where they have been part of the consumer landscape for decades, led by the big three credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. The Chinese government aim
A new paid leave bill in the District is once again driving the national conversation and stirring debate. If passed, it will be the most progressive in America—and, according to The Washington Post, the bill
The darkest moment of the 2012 campaign for President Obama was the first of his three debates with Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee. Obama was rusty and under-prepared, which contributed to his poor showing that night, but a big reason he lost the plot so badly is that the Mitt Romney he had pre
Hobby Lobby, big-box purveyor of cut-rate craft supplies and idiosyncratic selections of register candy, last made national headlines for challenging the federal government on the Affordable Care Act's
It’s difficult to summon the right adjectives to explain how American gymnast Simone Biles completely crushes all the competition in the whole world. Luckily, the internet was invented, and so I can use GIFs instead. Biles is competing at the World Championships in Glasgow this week, and you reall
From beginning to end, the third Republican debate had an air of unreality. Faced with two hours' worth of uncomfortable questions about their economic policy positions, the candidates could respond only by finding one way after another to cocoon themselves from the truth.As I
Something is different about Donald Trump. You'd have expected him to be on fire at Wednesday night's Republican debate, given criticism that his performance in last month's showdown had been lackluster. But he didn’t land that many zingers. He didn’t rant about Iowans who’ve star
John Kasich entered last night's Republican debate champing at the bit and raring for a fight. Asked a standard job interview question about his greatest weakness, he launched into a tirade against front-running candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson, saying that the Republican Party was on the “v
Alex Mar likens the search for her one true sect to “spiritual shopping.” In her new book Witches of America she sets out to infiltrate groups of modern witches, the young men and women (women mostly), who recover the rituals of a grab bag of pagan traditions, and whose fringe culture i
Onscreen sexual violence has become as monotonous as it is ubiquitous. In a 2006 essay, film critic David Edelstein coined the phrase “torture porn,” describing horror movies like Hostel, Saw, and Wolf Creek
Racial justice hasn't received much attention in either party's presidential debates. But more silence would have been preferrable to what we got from Republicans on Wednesday night.With no prompting from the moderators—a problem in and of itself—New Jersey Governor Chris Christie entered into a
At the third GOP presidential debate on Wednesday night, CNBC moderator Becky Quick asked Ted Cruz how he would “try and help” the working women in this country who “still earn just
The Republican Party once again packed a stage with its candidates for a debate on Wednesday night, and most of them still don't have a prayer. The CNBC-sponsored event served more as a sounding board for conservative talking points and personal political agendas from politicians polling in the sing
At the CNBC Republican debate, Ted Cruz really took it to his opponents—the terrible liberal media. “The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media,” Cruz said in response to a perfectly reasonable response to a question about
Republicans are three debates in, and the presidential candidates have yet to field a substantive question on climate change.
There was very little doubt that Carly Fiorina would deliver a strong performance at the Republican debate Wednesday night. One hour into the evening, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard was already nimbly fielding questions and offering sharp ripostes. But can she translate her performance at the deb
Earlier this week The New York Times attributed Ben Carson’s rising poll numbers—especially, to Donald Trump’s growing frustration, in Iowa—to his ca
The big winners of the third Republican debate are surely CNN and Fox News, which come out looking much better than CNBC. The journalists on CNBC repeatedly paraded their economic ignorance. To understand the problem with the network’s coverage, it’s worth keeping in mind that CNBC is a business
Among the many dramas of Wednesday's third Republican debate, perhaps the most interesting is the battle between Jeb Bush and his one-time protege Marco Rubio. The two men have a history but they are very different political animals: Jeb is a large, lumbering creature, a veritable dinosaur compared
Before Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate began, GOP consultant Rick Wilson got wind that someone was going to make a big mistake.Man oh man, the dumb, pre-planned move a certain campaign is about to make in the big debate is campaign-ending stupid.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson)
