On a day full of criticism from Donald Trump, political protests, linked arms, players taking a knee or not coming on the field at all during the national anthem, and renewed pleas for unity from the league, NBC and the NFL took a ratings hit on Sunday Night Football. In metered market numbers, the primetime […]
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After 10 Days, Scaramucci Fired As Comm Director And Escorted From White House
President Trump has removed Anthony Scaramucci from his new job as communications director, on his 11th day on the job — he was named to the position on July 21. “Anthony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House Communications Director. Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean […]
‘The Atlantic’ Endorses Hillary Clinton for President
In October of 1860, James Russell Lowell, the founding editor of The Atlantic, warned in these pages about the perishability of the great American democratic experiment if citizens (at the time, white, male citizens) were to cease taking seriously their franchise: One of the animating causes of this magazine at its founding, in 1857, was […]
No Protests Mark L.A. Premiere Of ‘Birth Of A Nation’
The premiere of The Birth is a Nation went off without a hitch – and without any protesters. Perhaps audiences – and Oscar voters – will decide that it should be judged on its own merits and not on the long ago allegation the film’s director, Nate Parker, and story co-writer Jean McGianni Celestin, raped […]