June 12, 2015 Archive June 2015

Dennis Hastert hit with another humiliating revelation: Accused pedophile kept file sliming "homosexuals" as child molesters

It's official: Louisiana public schools are using the Book of Genesis in high school science classes

Stingy, white and fat: Here's what the rest of the world thinks of Americans

Video captures off-duty Florida police officers kicking seated black man: "They beat me like a dog in the street"

"I'm almost to the point of wanting them all segregated": Texas teacher pens breathtakingly racist McKinney post

Judge finds probable cause to charge two Cleveland cops in Tamir Rice's death

Remembering Ornette Coleman: What you need to know about the late jazz visionary

The box that saved our sex lives

The brilliant magic of "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell": "I try and grab the audience literally by the eyeballs, and I don’t let go"

How Seinfeld became a bad joke: The threat of a hyper-vigilant left-wing outrage machine has been greatly exaggerated

"The game isn't the NBA. It's the American racial empire": Let's talk about basketball's white-privilege problem

Remembering Christopher Lee: From Dracula to Saruman, he captured the erotic allure of decadence and the hidden nature of reality

Toxic masculinity is killing men: The roots of male trauma

Black men are target practice: America's grotesque history of racist games

"This is a very painful reality": The "staggering" human and environmental cost of fast fashion

Ted Cruz is on a kamikaze mission: How his Obamacare extremism exposes the GOP's healthcare crackup

The fall and rise of Rupert Murdoch: How the world's most ruthless mogul salvaged his media empire

10 Things to Know for Today

Mizzou's heinously backwards approach to stopping sexual assault: Ban women from frat parties

Why the law doesn't apply to people like David Petraeus

America is still a segregationist state: The brutal lessons of McKinney

Megyn Kelly: Obama wants to force wealthy, white neighborhoods to "diversify"

Jon Stewart roasts "motherf*cker" Donald Rumsfeld: One day he'll think, just for a second

Paul Krugman: "Seriously bad ideas" have staying power because they appeal to the prejudices of the economic elite

Larry Wilmore: "Is Lindsey Graham trying to Duggar his way to the White House?"

Rachel Maddow perfectly explains the hateful insanity of Michigan and North Carolina anti-gay laws

Rudy Giuliani tells Fox News: Disrespectful Obama should carry around a "Hate Police" sign

Chris Pratt only makes 3 faces in all of "Jurassic World"

Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders: The Podcast

Anti-gay outrage of the week: Michigan extends a giant middle finger to same-sex families

Texas resident attempts to raise $1 million to combat nonexistent Al Sharpton rally

"Game of Thrones" stars on how they want Tyrion and Daenerys to die: "I think we’ll go out in a blaze of glory—boom, boom, Bonnie and Clyde"

Video captures California cops making fun of amputee's "f*cking nub" and chowing down on pot candy

Watch The Police reunite at Dodger Stadium: An exclusive clip from "Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police"

"Fox & Friends" ignores medical expert in bizarre "debate" about pregnancy risks

Jaw-droppingly racist McKinney post gets teacher fired -- but she insists she only meant well when pining for segregation

Spokane NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal falsely portrays herself as black, family says

Kim Basinger on her "11th Hour" role: "I wanted to portray being maternal, which is so powerful and innate in a woman’s psyche"

Some conservatives are being terrible about Rachel Dolezal, but mostly people are just confused

"I don't know if he likes immigrants": The budding smear campaign against Bernie Sanders

"Something is rotten in Michigan": Poisoned water supplies, dissolved school districts and a massive unraveling of American democracy

"Orange is the New Black" early release prompts Internet freakout: "TELL YOUR FRIENDS. TELL YOUR DOG. TELL YOUR LESBIAN AUNT"

Boston Italian restaurants revolt: Get Olive Garden food truck and its sh*tty breadsticks out of our neighborhood!

Definitive proof that Bill O'Reilly has no idea what he's talking about when he talks about "socialism"

Rick Perry: Obama's ISIS remarks prove he lacks "executive experience"

Rachel Dolezal’s parents speak out on CNN: “We are confirming the truth”

Fox News' big welfare lie gets demolished: The shiftless moocher meme is one giant myth

AP NewsAlert

Utah pizzeria employee has anti-gay epithet carved in his arm during robbery

Florida teacher doesn't understand why it was a bad idea to out one of her students as a lesbian

The 15 most amazing Chris Pratt moments from the "Jurassic World" press tour

“Oh, you Black Death!”: Henry Johnson fought valiantly in WWI and was hailed as a "race-hero" -- until he returned home

A banner week for Fox News racism: McKinney & attacks on a desegregation initiative show the white-grievance network at its worst

Community Discussion: Can Republicans ever admit to climate change?

LeBron's "wardrobe malfunction": The brief peek that sparked an absurdly Puritanical freak-out

Teenager discovers new planet on 3rd day of internship

Former "Superman" Dean Cain mocks the idea that new skin-tight "Batsuit" might cause male body issues

Nashville's Five Knives are the explosive soundtrack to pop's apocalypse

The Koch brothers just took a huge step toward a GOP civil war

Laverne Cox on Caitlyn Jenner: “I’m so grateful that I had the luxury of transitioning in private”

Jerry Seinfeld's new bizarro world: The sadness of watching a genius age into Bill O'Reilly