President Trump could have had his wall. In early 2018, Democrats offered to appropriate funding for a border wall — not just some funding, the full $25 billion — if the president would agree to provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living in the United States as part of …
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During last Friday’s March For Life rally in Washington, D.C., a confrontation was captured on video between a rowdy group of students from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School and a Native-American protester named Nathan Phillips. The enduring image of the fracas will be that of a student named Nick Sandmann, …
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Tracks by Maren Morris, Gangstagrass, Jared Deck and Patty Griffin are among the 10 must-hear songs this week. Yola, “Faraway Look” Produced by Dan Auerbach, this country-soul showcase is cut from the same cloth as Petula Clark’s “Downtown,” with orchestral strings that swoon and a retro-minded chorus that would have …
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In a year when the progressive Democratic platform is coalescing around variations of Medicare-for-All, free college and the Green New Deal, presidential candidate Andrew Yang stands apart — with a bold proposal to provide a “Freedom Dividend” of $1,000 a month to every adult in America. Yang — a lawyer, …
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The Killers contrast a mythic American dream with a darker, more depressing vision of U.S. life in their scathing new song “Land of the Free.” Frontman Brandon Flowers criticizes President Trump’s proposed border wall, institutional racism and the country’s failure to introduce substantial gun control reform. The singer uses “the …
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The Green New Deal is suddenly on everyone’s lips. Freshman superstar Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is championing it. The GOP’s anti-tax jihadi Grover Norquist is trashing it. But what is it? And where did it come from? And why were its backers protesting Nancy Pelosi? Rolling Stone spoke to Varshini Prakash, …
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A mother attempts to reunite with her estranged daughter, a member of R. Kelly‘s alleged sex cult, in this clip from tonight’s two-part finale of the Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly. During the episode, Michelle Kramer recounts how her daughter Dominique Gardner, then working as a dental assistant in Chicago, …
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Comedy icon Bob Einstein — who died suddenly of cancer today — will be remembered for everything from his Super Dave Osborne character to his work on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Arrested Development, Anger Management and his two appearances on Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. But to …
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Mötley Crüe’s seemingly unfilmable group autobiography, The Dirt, will finally come out as a biopic via Netflix next spring. Frontman Vince Neil shared the news with an effusively excited, exclamation-point–studded tweet: “Wow!!! Just left Netflix offices. Just saw The Dirt movie!! Fuckin’ awesome!! Can’t wait for everyone to see it! …
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