Stephanie Merrick is managing editor of the Washington Free Beacon. She graduated from the University of Michigan where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Review. Her Twitter handle is @stelisew. She can be reached at stephanie@freebeacon.com.
Journalist and education reformer Campbell Brown announced on Friday that she would be joining Facebook in a business role. Brown will be partnering with news organizations to improve their business models and figure out how those organizations can better profit from their relationship with the social media giant.
Washington Free Beacon executive editor Sonny Bunch is a man of many opinions. And he voices them constantly on the internet. Bunch may have several terrible opinions, from loving Mad Max and Man of Steel and Anne Hathaway to describing cargo shorts as "great." But one thing is clear, Bunch has great taste in men. Who doesn't appreciate a good male lead who can make a brooding, troubled man with a withering stare look sexy?
After more than a decade of planning and $44 million spent, a proposed memorial for President Dwight D. Eisenhower may never be built. A House Committee on Natural Resources report published last week revealed the extent of the money wasted on the already controversial project.
A group of conservative feminists on Thursday agreed that the statistics being used to create the impression of a “campus culture of rape” are overblown, though they admitted that sexual assaults to sometimes take place on campus.
National Journal released its 2013 vote ratings on Thursday. The ratings are based on roll-call votes from 2013 and compared on an ideological scale. Votes on noncontroversial issues and issues that fall along regional lines were not included.
While Republicans often get the reputation for being “the party of the rich,” seven of the 10 richest members of Congress are Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP).