The notion that somehow the ancient pastime of chess is inherently racist due to the rule of white pieces moving first has been broached on an Australian taxpayer-funded national radio network. The controversy arose when the national broadcaster ABC proposed a radio slot on the matter Tuesday and sought an interview with John Adams, an…
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is changing its debate format to limit the rigorous standing required by candidates, at a time when there is renewed scrutiny over former Vice President Joe Biden’s fitness for the White House. The DNC announced on Friday that the format for its next debate, to be held in Arizona on…
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday announced its updated debate guidelines, which essentially eliminate the chance of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) participating in the upcoming CNN/Univision debate. In order to participate in the March 15 debate, a candidate must have earned at least 20 percent of the pledged delegates allotted up to that point. That…
Mike Bloomberg pays people to make him look cool on social media. But it seems no amount of money could have helped him look cool on Nevada’s Democratic debate stage last night. While Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders took the former NYC mayor apart, analysts and celebrities praised the senators and panned Bloomberg. Mike Bloomberg…
The informal TechCrunch book club (which is now a whole week off schedule thanks to the news cycle — let’s see if we can catch up here shortly!) is now venturing into the very, very short story What’s Expected of Us, the third piece in Ted Chiang’s Exhalation collection. If you’re one of those people…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) denied telling Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that a woman cannot win the White House during Tuesday evening’s Debate debate in Iowa. “Well, as a matter of fact, I didn’t say it, and I don’t want to waste a whole lot of time on this because this is what Donald Trump…would want,”…
The gap between President Donald Trump and the Federal Reserve chairman he appointed has narrowed considerably. A year ago, Powell and his fellow officials at the Federal Reserve were in the midst of a monetary poilicy they described as “normalization” and which required gradual rate hikes. The Fed hiked rates four times in 2018, provoking…
Mike Coppola/Getty Images for CNN, Bill Pugliano/Getty CNN president Jeff Zucker, whose network will host the second 2020 Democrat presidential primary debate this week, once endorsed White House hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) in her successful campaign for California attorney general a decade ago. In 2009, Zucker, then president of NBC Universal, held a breakfast gathering…
