April 29, 2015 Archive April 2015

Whole Foods & Five Guys come under fire for tone-deaf police stunt

"Game of Thrones"' King Tommen on last week's sex scene: "It was very disturbing"

The police are the problem: Why it's time to take on Maryland's cop unions

Texas ag chief launches bold campaign to legalize deep fryers in schools

"You're too bossy": Tumblr page exposes the sexist "shit people say to women directors"

"The perfect beer for removing ‘no’ from your vocabulary": Bud Light apologizes for avoidable tone-deaf tagline

Bernie Sanders to officially announce candidacy Thursday

Baltimore's violent protesters are right: Smashing police cars is a legitimate political strategy

Robert Downey Jr.'s weird silence: Reporters aren't treating him like "a kiddie fiddler who’s running for mayor”

The Mayweather-Pacquiao fight: Reports of boxing's death have been greatly exaggerated -- thanks to one man

A skeptic reconsiders Blur: "The Magic Whip" could be their “White Album”

It's not about Islam, it's about courage: Authors protesting Charlie Hebdo's PEN award are missing the point

How they ignore Black America: Freddie Gray, Baltimore & the pernicious influence of respectability politics

11 things white people can do to be real anti-racist allies

"The American Dream is a Myth": Bill O'Reilly, Joseph Stiglitz and the destructive legacy of white privilege

“Southerners were white,” and “Negroes were Negroes”: How a people’s past shapes the present

Stealing a page from Big Tobacco and climate-change deniers: How Armenian genocide denialists get away with it

Geraldo Rivera schooled by Baltimore protester: "Stop making money off of black pain!"

A "Gremlins" reboot is coming, of course: Someone got this dumb '80s movie wet, and now it's multiplying

Jon Stewart blasts Wolf Blitzer for shock over Baltimore riots: "Ferguson was just a few months ago!"

CNN guest slams media for saying protesters are "thugs": "Just call them n***ers"

"Where is Joseph Kent?": Social media erupts after cameras capture activist's suspicious-looking arrest

10 Things to Know for Today

Ferguson activist perfectly schools Wolf Blitzer: "You are suggesting broken windows are worse than broken spines"

Watch Amy Schumer hilariously eviscerate pop music's tired "Girl, You Don't Need Makeup" trope

Bill O'Reilly's hateful Baltimore "lesson": Black communities need to "police themselves"

How good to know! Majority of Republicans would attend a loved one's same-sex wedding

GOP's creeping Obamacare terror: How health reform's demise could scorch the party

Baltimore councilman tells Maddow: Violent protesters are "children crying out from abject poverty" who have lost hope

7 highlights from David Letterman's illuminating exit interview

"The law is the enemy": What RFK can remind America about police brutality

Grain higher, livestock mixed

Sean Hannity blames Freddie Gray's death on Freddie Gray: "Don't run...when you see a cop"

Purvi Patel to appeal conviction: "Feticide is an extreme, extreme proposition"

Charlie Hebdo and the PEN Award: Petition sent to authors urging them to "disassociate ourselves" from honoring the magazine

The racist end to the War on Drugs: "White America’s just trying to figure out how to take our money"

"Bloods" member to Chris Hayes: "We don't want anyone else hurt. We don't want shooting. We want a cease fire."

Fareed Zakaria admits he drunkenly slept through entire college graduation: "Do what I say, don't do what I do!"

Starbucks' "ethical" water is bottled straight from California's drought

Amy Schumer’s chat with Ashley Madison CEO: Encourage men to cheat when women gain weight, then profit

Black America's Baltimore schism: Why the Freddie Gray tragedy demands serious soul-searching

Protester perfectly explains why nonviolent protesting is not always effective

Kristen Stewart slams "disgustingly sexist" Hollywood: "It's so offensive it's crazy"

Supreme Court's dopey anti-gay arguments: What's so scary about tossing aside our worst traditions?

Neoliberals are killing us: The TED talk, techno-utopian, Thomas Friedman-economy is a lie

Marco Rubio utterly humiliates himself: How shameless pandering won him the Sheldon Adelson primary

Amy Schumer, feminist savior: Just one more Cool Girl trap she has to avoid

Paul McCartney just played this famous Beatles song live for the first time

Fox News' Todd Starnes: "Preaching from the Bible" will be a "hate crime" if Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriage

Baltimore band Future Islands turns Letterman performance into haunting tribute to protesters: "Let us not discount their voices"

Josh Duggar: Marriage equality discriminates against Christians who want to discriminate

“Last Man On Earth”: Will Forte's boorish bro-meets-whiny Nice Guy is the hero we love to hate

Trevor Noah's return to "The Daily Show" was spectacularly awkward

Laura Ingraham: After same-sex marriage comes legalized polyamory, incest

All political ads are now banned from New York City public transportation

"We have a distorted economy": Joseph Stiglitz sounds off on inequality, the TPP and 2016

Jeffrey Dahmer's jailhouse murderer explains why he killed the infamous cannibal

Pope Francis lashes out over gender wage gap: "The disparity is pure scandal"

America is not a Christian nation: The dark capitalist roots of our country's most destructive myth

I'm going to climate denial school: My first week inside the science of anti-science

Marco Rubio's massive tax fraud: Why his latest pledge is part of a big con

Watch: Fox News' Stacey Dash gets schooled on the gender wage gap

"Were they Muslims/Or insider blokes?": This is the best terrible song about "false flag" terror attacks that you will ever hear