2016


Richmond Times-Dispatch Endorses Gary Johnson

The Richmond Times-Dispatch, the main newspaper in Virginia, endorsed Libertarian presidential nominee and former governor Gary Johnson in a Sunday editorial. The endorsement is a break in tradition for the newspaper as it has exclusively endorsed Republican presidential nominees for the past 36 years. The editorial blasted the Democratic and […]


Debate Moderators Announced

The Commission on Presidential Debates has announced the moderators for the three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate. NBC’s Lester Holt, ABC’s Martha Raddatz, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and Fox News’s Chris Wallace will moderate the presidential debates while CBSN’s Elaine Quijano will moderate the vice presidential debate. Cooper and […]


Brian Williams Makes His Return at the Eleventh Hour

Brian Williams will make his return to anchoring a regularly scheduled program on September 6 with the 11th Hour, a new late-night program on MSNBC. The 11th Hour will air at 11 PM and be a wrap-up of the day’s election news, consequently it will only run for the duration […]


Donald Trump Gets Help from Across the Pond

On Wednesday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump got help from former United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage. Farage has not formally endorsed Trump, but the struggling presidential candidate, who deemed himself “Mr. Brexit” in a tweet, tried to draw comparisons between the American election and Great Britain’s decision […]


Comics Take on the Election and Politics

Comics, particularly Marvel comics, have been known to take influences from the real world. Captain America got his start punching Adolf Hitler in the mouth and then later dealt with communism and Watergate. Today, the two titans of the comics industry, Marvel and DC, both have comics that are politically-themed. […]