March 25, 2015 Archive March 2015

"Apocalypse is right around the corner": Rick Perlstein unloads on Mike Huckabee-style conservatives

"Decapitate her head off": Phil Robertson's vile message to atheists

Irony alert: Lawyer who's suing her neighbor over secondhand smoke defends industrial air pollutors

"A dream come true for Hillary Clinton": Wall Street Journal editorial board rips Ted Cruz

"He can’t keep his mouth shut or his hands to himself": Barney Frank dishes about Joe Biden and more

Ready, set, scramble! Chaos defines end of tourney games

Gérard Depardieu gets sleazy as a DSK-inspired sex addict in "Welcome to New York"

Meet the new Bob Dylan: This young Australian songwriter is the voice of our anxious 21st century

"Help! My boys were stopped three times by police for being outside unsupervised"

The new Gamergate: Angry white men are trying to shut down diverse comics

To hell with academia: How I learned to embrace my evil advertising gig

'Mad Men' star Hamm has treatment for alcohol addiction

AP Investigation: Are slaves catching the fish you buy?

"Mad Men" star Jon Hamm recently got out of rehab for alcohol addiction

14 ways Republicans have declared war on the middle class

Speak loudly and get into trouble: Howard Zinn's enduring lesson about respectability politics

Benjamin Netanyahu's dangerous worldview: Why his reelection spells doom

When my birth mother found me

Ted Cruz's "back-bencher" problem: Why the right-wing hero is in serious denial

10 Things to Know for Today

"Ethnic" actors aren't stealing white roles: The racist, clueless backlash to TV's greatest season begins

"I have been radicalized": How this grad student fought NYU — and won

The Kochs take millions in subsidies in Montana, then try to block Medicaid expansion

"Hey society! F**k you!": "The Daily Show" is fed up with wage inequality

Megyn Kelly calls out Ted Cruz: "What have you actually accomplished?"

Letterman grills Bill O'Reilly over reporting fabrications: "People must trust you"

The cover of Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" has been revealed

Benjamin Netanyahu's racist remarks may have swung Israeli election, pollster finds

Jon Stewart blasts Congress: "The epic ongoing battle between f**kery and dumbassery"

"Hannity" panelist Gavin McInnes: Girls shouldn't go on spring break because "women aren't as strong as men," can't hold their booze

"HELL NO": Shonda Rhimes and others destroy Deadline’s ridiculous "Ethnic Casting" backlash story

The red-state media war with no winners

GOP governor of Iowa lied about email use, deposition shows

Kevin Hart completely bombed his "SNL" audition

Amazing video shows colorblind people seeing colors for the first time

Jeb Bush had previously unreported private email account while governor of Florida

SCOTUS rules pregnant women can be protected from workplace discrimination

Confederate flag's constitutional mess: What's at stake in a Texas legal fight

Scientists ID a new culprit in the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs: Pesticides

Jeb’s brazen cash grab: His “I’m my own man” campaign crumbles in face of big fundraiser with W.

Jeb's "James Baker" problem: Why hawks are turning on the "anti-Israel" Bush

Shame of sexist frat boys: The real reason why their horrible behavior won't change

"Gay people just look like people”: J.K. Rowling shuts down reader's complaint about Dumbledore's sexuality

Celebrities are rarely funny in the New Yorker: Here are the bold-faced "Shouts & Murmurs" bylines you can actually trust

GOP budget Thunderdome: Two budgets enter, one budget leaves!

Parents who smoke are screwing up their kids even more than we thought

"THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD": The most hyperbolic responses to Zayn Malik leaving "One Direction"

The "X-Files" echo effect: Here's proof that the legendary series never actually left us

Why didn't conservative media question a college free speech controversy?

Ted Cruz's "country music" drivel: What's really behind his musical conversion

Noam Chomsky blasts the assault on labor: "'Right to work' means 'right to scrounge'"

Bowe Bergdahl will be charged with desertion and misbehavior, official says

Fraternities plan to lobby Congress to prevent campus rape investigations

Pathetic millionaire crybabies: How super PACs disrupted -- and saddened -- the lowly 1 percent

Supreme Court reportedly divided on whether it was "appropriate" for the EPA to impose life-saving mercury limits

"This is causing mental problems": Fox News host's crazy objection to school nutrition programs