July 14, 2015 Archive July 2015

Runaways' Jackie Fuchs speaks out for first time since rape allegations: "Being a passive bystander is not a 'crime'"

Steve King lavishes praise on Donald Trump, predicts he'd win Iowa caucuses if they were today

"I have become radicalized": Ta-Nehisi Coates on his "low expectations" for white America

We have no idea why "SNL" cut this sketch of Dwayne Johnson dancing in a daisy costume

They're terrified of Bernie Sanders: Fox News, Hillary surrogates and Wall Street get extra-nervous

AP NewsAlert

"I'm going to make you eat your words": Escaped drug kingpin allegedly threatens Donald Trump on Twitter

The overwhelming idiocy of America's obsession with "gaffes"

Even the New York Times is body-shaming Serena Williams now: It's time to break this absurd and insulting habit once and for all

Ted Cruz loses his wingnut welfare: How the New York Times smacked down a decades-old conservative racket

Figures on government spending and debt

Jason Isbell's dream to make a "ridiculous wanking guitar" album: "I have to be so damn tasteful all the time when I’m playing my own songs"

The new sex therapy: Kink -- even infidelity -- can rekindle a marriage

Reveling in the darkness: "True Detective," "Game of Thrones" and the missing critique in TV's cult of gritty realism

"I'd known there was a possibility this had happened": Runaways biographer Evelyn McDonnell on rape charges

China accuses trading firms of manipulating stocks

Spieth arrives at St. Andrews, resuming Grand Slam quest

Reds' Todd Frazier wins All-Star Derby in home park

9 horrible things the Christian right does because "God" said it was OK

5 blatant lies used to justify the drone war

Ukraine PM says reforms continue despite 'lunatic' lawmakers

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

4 disastrous things Scott Walker has done to Wisconsin -- and would do to America

AP NewsAlert

America's drone program is a travesty -- and a mystery even to its executors

The not-so-secret danger in your over-the-counter headache medication

The Republican Party's secret motto: "Don't tread on my right to tread on you"

Scott Walker's white man problem: His narrow appeal is his Achilles heel

Iran nuclear deal reached; Obama says based on "verification," not trust

"Historic mistake": Netanyahu takes to Twitter to unload outrage on Iran deal

"A decade of diplomatic efforts": The complete timeline of how the Iran deal was reached

Geraldo Rivera and Eric Bolling nearly come to blows over Bill O'Reilly's exploitation of Kate Steinle's murder

I was wrong in saying that display of the Confederate flag should be a hate crime

Santorum can't stop being Santorum: Why he won't shed his obsession with the culture wars

Hillary Clinton is no neoliberal ideologue: She knows the 1990s are over, and her economic platform proves it

The plot to marginalize Bernie Sanders: The shared agenda that links Fox News and Hillary Clinton surrogates

2 more charged in death of boy beaten for eating cake

Paul Krugman throws down: GOP base loves Trump because he's "a belligerent, loudmouthed racist" just like them

Conservative heads explode over Iran nuclear deal: "A lot of innocent people will die because of this deal"

Must-see morning clip: Boy George & Jack Black join Robby Krieger for a glorious tribute to The Doors

"Citizenfour" director sues U.S. government for "years of Kafkaesque harassment at the borders"

10 Things to Know for Today

"The law is the law!": Megyn Kelly ambushes "White People" director Jose Antonio Vargas with questions about Kate Steinle

Rachel Maddow joins David Letterman in relentlessly making fun of Donald Trump

Donald Trump unleashes on Hillary Clinton: "Knowingly putting out lies"

You beat Donald Trump by mocking him: GOP can shut him down by making him Rob Ford

Scott Walker makes Mitt Romney look like FDR: The Kohl's shopper is even more callous toward the poor

Bran Stark is returning for "Game of Thrones" season six

Spotlight shining on Pluto on cold outskirts of solar system

Judd Apatow says the Bill Cosby rape allegations are personal: "Somebody that I care about said that's exactly how it went down"

"The last of the known worlds to be explored": A remarkable first peek at NASA’s historic Pluto images

GOP presidential candidates lose it over Iran nuclear deal: "Shame on the Obama administration"

Body-shaming, dangerous diet routines and "Honey Boo Boo's" Mama June Shannon: What the tabloids leave out

Lena Dunham says her new "over sharing Internet friend" newsletter is not "the anti-Goop"

Top Reddit engineer quits in wake of Ellen Pao's resignation: Former CEO was placed "on a glass cliff"

The Economist: Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between the World and Me" is "just good enough to get away with" justifying its existence

A reality check for Iran hawks: The deal is done, and there's little they can do to stop it

"Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color" has gone viral: Will anything in Hollywood change?

SeaWorld's latest deception: Park allegedly sent undercover employee to infiltrate activists

The Daily Donald: Trump continues to nip at Jeb Bush's heels

Scott Walker's no-good, very-bad campaign: Why his supposedly ingenious electoral strategy could be doomed to fail

How crisis pregnancy centers are using taxpayer dollars to lie to women

Coroner: Florida teen dies in ropes course fall in SC

Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Confederate flag "represents the lie" at the core of American history

Amanda Seyfried once got paid 10% of her male co-star's salary

The rise and fall of the German Empire: What Greece's crippling bailout deal reveals about the future of Europe

Fox News' summer of discontent: Donald Trump, the Confederate flag and the GOP's brewing electoral nightmare

Alex Jones warns listeners: The UN is a "space cult" plotting to eradicate humanity by making our children gay

Here's the incredibly horrifying tale of Jimmy Fallon's freak finger injury

Scott Walker makes a clown of himself: Foreign policy-challenged candidate disastrously flubs Iran

"Please do not feed the animals": Oklahoma GOP compares food stamp recipients to park animals

Sinead O'Connor slams Kim Kardashian's Rolling Stone cover: "Music has officially died"

Stop laughing at Donald Trump: He's making the immigration debate more vile, racist and extreme

The top 10 movies on the iTunes Store

America's power plants are getting cleaner -- but they're still pretty filthy

Donald Trump Twitter fail: "Nazi" tweet draws relentless mockery