July 10, 2015 Archive July 2015

This “Key & Peele” pirate sketch is an absolutely brilliant send-up of rape culture

Marco Rubio is bought and paid for by the biggest education scam in America

Bill Cosby accuser takes on Whoopi Goldberg's defense: "He slipped drugs into my blood and he raped me"

Jeb Bush just stepped in it: He's either a stone-cold plutocrat -- or just a terrible pol who sounds like one

Bill Murray is already the break-out star of Comic Con, of course

Portland is "a collection of human turds": Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock indulges in the time-honored tradition of hip city backlash

"The true people of South Carolina" deface Nikki Haley's Facebook wall with racist rants after Confederate flag decision

"Like you're touching your closed eyelid": (Mis)adventures in orgasmic meditation

"Conditions were 'bluntly Dickensian'": The disgrace of New York's homeless shelters

"Tangerine": A gorgeous and timely human comedy — and one of the most important American films of the year

If Apple Music wins, what will we lose? Here's the corporate clampdown we didn't see coming

Jeb Bush's plutocratic fantasy land: Why his comments about American workers are completely divorced from reality

6 reasons why "compassionate conservatism" is a myth

5 signs the one percent have truly obscene amounts of money

How the AP-NORC poll on long-term care was conducted

Poll: Sandwich generation worried about own long-term care

Donald Trump is Democrats' greatest gift: Why his buffoonish politics threaten to bring down his entire party

11 things the rest of the world does so much better than America

Greece threatens the entire neoliberal project: Angela Merkel, Alexis Tsipras and the demise of austerity

Fox News creates mythical preteen IUD seeker, ignoring the success of school-based reproductive healthcare clinics

Big Oil wins again: Why BP isn't sweating its "historic" Gulf spill settlement

Bobby Jindal's obsession with "colorblindness" is everything wrong with the GOP's racial politics

Donald Trump is the clown in charge: Sorry, GOP -- you created him, now he's the face of your party

AP NewsAlert

Louis Gohmert's "Dumb & Dumber" philosophy of climate denial

"Some of them asked if the slaves got paid": True stories from a former plantation tour guide

GOP's Obamacare muddle: They want to repeal it, but can't figure out how

Immigration cage match! Geraldo Rivera and Ann Coulter throw down on "Hannity"

Harper Lee drops a bombshell in "Go Set a Watchman" first chapter and people are losing their minds

The Daily Donald: Meet your new GOP frontrunner, America

Paul Krugman: The GOP wants "to deliver a Greek-style economic disaster to America"

Conservative African-American group defends Bill Cosby against "opportunistic" women

Let's make the Confederate flag a hate crime: It is the American swastika and we should recoil it from it in horror

This Bill Murray interview has fans going crazy about the chance of a return to "Ghostbusters"

House Republicans' crusade to destroy environmental regulations brought down by their attempt to promote racism

Pope Francis, no friend to the 1 percent: The pontiff continues to champion the "discarded"

Hillary Clinton goes bold on gun safety -- but she sounded a different note in 2008

Leading the double Instagram life: When the secret "fake" account looks infinitely more real

Donald Trump has all the answers to the Iran nuclear crisis: “The Persians are great negotiators” -- we're just sending the "wrong people"

Rich Lowry and Megyn Kelly smugly dismiss the existence of white privilege as "an odious lie"

"Moops" now, "Moops" forever: The sad, final yawp of the defeated King v. Burwell mastermind

"New" Mike Huckabee ad suggests a vote for anyone but him will lead to nuclear conflict with Iran

"Democrats are the real racists!": Inside the GOP's pathetic & insulting response to charges of bigotry

This is what it's going to look like when 20 feet of sea level rise swallows America

A Crossword About Nothing

"She's a drunk slut, got it": Amy Schumer breaks down the vicious ways women are policed by society

GOP’s cowardly Confederate flag move perfectly crystallizes their Donald Trump problem on race

Jennifer Lawrence gives us the Cher impression we never knew we needed

Marco Rubio's anti-choice nightmare: How he could bring back one of Ronald Reagan's most odious policies

The FBI is demanding a dangerous new surveillance tool — and simply asking us to trust it

5 reasons to wish Amazon an unhappy birthday

Can you write a best-seller using only emoji?

Community Discussion: Will the world do enough to save the climate?

Welcome to Wingnut Bingo, Salon's official drinking game: Rick Santorum edition

Conservatives howl as NY Times calls out Ted Cruz for trying to cheat his way onto bestseller list

FBI admits Dylann Roof got gun because they failed to run background check fast enough

Put your phone away or stay home: Anything you have to say, do or text needs to wait until the lights come up