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Who Were America's Worst Vice Presidents?
As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton get ready to announce their vice presidential running mates, we look back at the worst VP picks in history.
By Madeleine Brand • • 50m ListenAs Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton get ready to announce their vice presidential running mates, we look back at the worst VP picks in history. Then, the Emmy nominations were announced today. Who’s in and who’s out? Next, we look at the rules around body cameras for cops and whether they’re being followed. Author Susan Faludi talks about her new memoir, “In the Darkroom,” and reconnecting with her estranged father who had gender reassignment surgery. And finally, the legal dangers of sharing HBO Go passwords and other web news in our Thursday Internet roundup.
Image: Portrait of Aaron Burr (1756-1836); Collection of the New Jersey Historical Society, Attributed to Gilbert Stuart
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5 storiesHistory's Worst Vice Presidents
From Aaron Burr to Spiro Agnew, presidents and presidential nominees have made some really bad choices for running mate in the past. Now that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are carefully weighing their options for VP, we thought we’d help them by going back to look at some of the worst vice presidents in U.S. history.
Read the story8 minEmmy Nominations: What Made the Cut?
One former Vice President is having a great day today. The fictional Selina Meyer, of the HBO comedy Veep. The show’s up for 17 Emmys. The full list of Emmy nominations dropped this morning. Voting members of the television academy were also all about “The People vs OJ Simpson,” “Game of Thrones” and “Mr. Robot.”
Read the story6 minWhen Cops Wear Body Cameras, Who Gets to See the Footage?
Police in Fresno released video footage Wednesday of two officers shooting and killing a 19-year-old man. The shooting happened last month. The department’s chief said he decided to release the graphic body camera footage because of intense interest in the shooting.
Read the story8 minSusan Faludi on Her Father
Susan Faludi has made a career of examining the politics of gender. Her first book, “Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women,” was a rallying cry for feminists in the early ‘90s. She followed that up with an examination of men in American society.
Read the story16 minWeb Roundup: Sharing Passwords
If you’ve ever shared a Netflix or HBO Go password and you know you have, you might be a felon. Or maybe not. We talk about the murky legal ground of sharing passwords and other news of the digital world in our regular weekly Internet roundup.
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