July 08, 2015 Archive July 2015

Let the end of Cosby be the true end of '80s moralism: Are we done looking for "strict father" figures yet?

We could have had it all: Watch Hannibal Buress' glorious trainwreck of a "Daily Show" audition

Donald Trump's latest statement is a marvel of narcissism and self-pity: "I have lost a lot during this Presidential run"

Top GOP lawyer absolutely scorches Ted Cruz: "Most graduates of Harvard Law School know" better

Laura Prepon's baffling Scientology tell-all: "Honestly, I’ve become more me"

Hillary Clinton rips GOP on immigration: She says their problem is much bigger than Trump

Stop the unnecessary killing of the mentally ill: A quarter of those killed by police this year were in a mental health crisis

"Cartel Land": A crazy, violent trip into Mexico's deadly drug war and America's border paranoia

The plague of angry white men: How racism, gun culture & toxic masculinity are poisoning America

Our Cosby delusions, undone: We'll go to great lengths to see powerful men as they want to see themselves

Joyce Carol Oates can't help herself: Bill Cosby is "the Rasputin of serial rapists"

Who is in, and about to get in the GOP race for president

7 facts that prove alcohol is way more dangerous than marijuana

The Right's 7 most ridiculous "scientific" theories

Bernie Sanders is no Ron Paul: What the press gets all wrong about the Vermont senator

Robert Reich: True patriots don't hate the government

The 3 biggest myths about the death penalty, debunked

"South Carolina does not do subtle racism": My life inside a segregation academy

Paula Deen's last lesson: What her family's brownface disgrace reveals about racism in America

The Confederate Flag's stubborn meaning, beyond heritage vs. hate: "I’m a tough individual, you can’t get me down, you can’t tell me what to do"

Bill O'Reilly: American lives are the "collateral damage" of political correctness

Amy Schumer meets with a smile consultant to fix her "garbage" smile

Megyn Kelly and Brit Hume joke about sexual consent -- but are furious over potential violations of men's rights

Sean Hannity is desperately trying to legitimize Donald Trump's Mexican rapists remarks

10 Things to Know for Today

Beverly Johnson responds to new Bill Cosby revelations: "I wasn't surprised at all"

Rudy Giuliani says Donald Trump is right about Mexican rapists — he just “said it in reverse”

Small town Alabama mayor: Big city atheists forced him to remove blatantly unconstitutional Christian flag from city hall

Hillary joins the chorus against BDS: On Israel, she aligns herself with the right, and people like Sheldon Adelson

TV SportsWatch

"Fox and Friends" guest on Paula Deen: "I think blacks have too much time on their hands just because we're unemployed"

For Cosby's accusers, justice might remain elusive

Fox News doctor says men are allowed to hit women now because of the "gender equality movement"

Rachel Maddow breaks down GOP candidates' bizarre battle for debate spots: "What did Brad Pitt ever do to deserve this?"

Conservative oligarchs declare war on democracy: Their brazen new ploy reveals their true motives

The "Paranoid Style" of Alex Jones: Why the right-wing "Jade Helm" insanity won't go away—and why that's extremely scary

Fracking "super-emitters" are spewing a lot more climate-harming methane into the atmosphere than the EPA thinks

Thomas Piketty attacks hypocritical Germans for insisting on Greek austerity: They're "a huge joke"

AP NewsAlert

Bizarre: New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street Journal, and United Airlines all downed by technical glitches

Eric Holder admits Edward Snowden leaks were "useful" -- but there's a catch

Watch the Hannibal Buress promos NBC didn't want you to see

Scott Walker's double-dealing exposed: How one of the right's worst talking heads just embarrassed him

Hillary's worthless interview: Why Clinton is determined to not make any news

Donald Trump's most delusional statement yet: "I’ll win the Latino vote"

We know you hate the word "moist" — and now science knows why

Janice Dickinson will drop her case against Bill Cosby -- but only if he apologizes

Gallows humor in the age of #BlackLivesMatter: "Key & Peele" returns and "Why? with Hannibal Buress" premieres, not a moment too soon

"More Nixonian than Nixon": Scott Walker's latest scandal lays bare his shady tactics

"Major cyber attack?" NYSE, WSJ and United makes Fox News and conspiracy-minded conservatives flip out

John Oliver gets results! New York City to change bail requirements for low-level offenders

"The Simpsons" takes a deep-dive into Donald Trump's gravity-defying combover

Did Anonymous take down the NYSE? Some very amusing tweets suggest it's possible...

The Daily Donald: More brands dump Trump -- and new details on his friendship with a notorious sex creep

The NYSE shutdown prompts irrepressible, apocalyptic glee: "In Zuccotti Park, Goldman Sachs boys build a squatters city out of Hermes gift boxes"

A staggering number of Republicans support the Confederate flag, new poll finds

Big Oil's decades of deception: Report reveals that Exxon's known the truth about climate science since 1981

Enough with the "Christian flag" tantrum: "God before government" might work for church, but not for city hall

Evangelicals' obsession with "sexual purity" has nothing to do with sex

Welcome Donald Trump, says Bill Kristol, who is wrong about everything

Whoopi Goldberg is still (still!) defending Bill Cosby: "Innocent until proven guilty"