July 15, 2015 Archive July 2015

Lena Dunham won't be your Gwyneth: "Girls" plus Rookie does not equal Goop

The top 10 books on Apple's iBooks-US

Authors United founder says Amazon's control of the book industry is "about the same as Standard Oil’s when it was broken up"

Whoopi Goldberg finally drops Cosby defense: All available information “kind of points to guilt”

Scott Walker just suggested that gay people are pedophiles

Let's make the South stop lying: The right's war on our history -- and truth -- must be defeated now

Who's speaking up for the shrinking middle class? Not who you'd expect

Capitalizing on marijuana: Here's who's behind all that weed

"Escaping ISIS": The harrowing Frontline investigation flips the focus from lost boy villains to their living victims

A grand theory of anti-blackness: The unflinching and profound terror in Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between The World and Me"

The untold story of the Greece coup: Another democratically elected leader tossed overboard for not submitting to economic orthodoxy

AP Top Sports News At Midnight EDT

10 dating tips from the religious right that are so bad they border on self-parody

11 jobs where a hard day's work only results in poverty

Mindfulness is a capitalist grift: How faux enlightenment maintains our status quo

The darkness that consumed Nixon: Why "Tricky Dick" could never do him justice

Scott Walker's vile gay bashing: This is what an Iowa-centric campaign looks like

Fox News wore Jon Stewart down: How 16 years of debunking right-wing lies exhausted the last honest man

Tom Petty on Confederate flag: "People just need to think about how it looks to a black person. It's just awful"

Bill O'Reilly's gunning for me! Salon is a "hate site" just as foul as Stormfront

Obama's disappointing criminal justice reform speech: The movement will need more than this

Call out the neocons: The Iran deal gives Democrats an opportunity -- but they may be too timid to seize it

"Fox News is not real news": San Francisco City Supervisor owns anonymous Fox News troll harassing him

The Daily Donald: Trump gets shut down by brother of woman whose murder he politicized

Neil deGrasse Tyson tells Stephen Colbert why NASA’s historic Pluto achievement isn’t “100 percent awesome”

This is how you attack institutionalized discrimination: The FDNY's long road to racial diversity

Tina Fey tells Jimmy Fallon & Amy Poehler she was once mistaken for a prostitute. (But is it true?)

Dan Aykroyd will cameo in Paul Feig's "Ghostbusters"

The latest proof that Operation Jade Helm 15 is a fascist rehearsal of a federal invasion? Beards!

Dick Cheney descends further into self-parody, hints Iran deal will trigger nuclear war

Emma Stone introduces Woody Allen to the hellish world of Twitter with a Joyce Carol Oates tweet

"Of course Bill Cosby is guilty": Three shocking revelations from "Cosby Show" actor's tell-all

The "Scalia effect" and Fox News: How the justice's trademark tone will shape the next generation of right-wing pundits

Shocking new research confirms: It's a great time to be a white guy in America (and a bad time to be anyone else)

You can blame fracking for causing kids to drop out of school

Bernie Sanders narrows the gap as Hillary Clinton's lead declines by double digits

Dreading Woody Allen's "Irrational Man"?: Joaquin Phoenix almost saves Allen's latest older man-younger woman opus

The GOP is the party of warmongers: What its insane overreaction to Obama's Iran deal really shows

Fox News just lets Bobby Jindal get away with his big lie

A new poll just shattered one of Donald Trump's dearest self-delusions

Andy Cohen steps in it: Amandla Stenberg, Kylie Jenner and the trivialization of an important racial discussion

Planned Parenthood's biggest problem is not "selling baby parts": What the latest anti-choice sting reveals about the abortion debate

"Confederate lives matter": Flag wavers to greet President Obama in Oklahoma

Scott Walker’s dilemma: Will GOP voters settle for the bland Donald Trump when they can have the real thing?

35 soul-crushing facts about American income inequality

The bleakness of being "Married": The FX comedy struggles against its darker side

I'm worried that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's "Sisters" will be as bad as it looks

Ted Cruz's Donald Trump scheme: The real purpose of today's meeting of anti-immigrant minds

Reddit defends anti-discrimination policy against "white-power racist-sexist neckbeards"

Denis Leary's "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" is sad & dated & raunchy & rough

The world only has ugliness for black women. That's why Serena Williams is so important

Donald Trump lashes out at Karl Rove in his latest Twitter fight: "A Bush plant who called all the races wrong"

Trump can't buy Sanders: How campaign finance -- and those old Clinton/Trump contributions -- might matter

Exxon's lies go even deeper: How the oil giant broke its promise and spent millions supporting climate denial

Rachel Maddow cheers on Obama's "never pacifist by any means" path to peace

The GOP's eternal return: Why Donald Trump's xenophobia is just more of the same

The right's despicable new obsession: Fox News, Matt Drudge and Donald Trump's fear-mongering is doomed to backfire

"Racism is a physical experience": Ta-Nehisi Coates breaks down white supremacy for Chris Hayes

Scott Walker's "clarification" of his anti-gay Boy Scout remarks is mind-numblingly stupid

President Obama weighs in on Bill Cosby: "Any civilized country should have no tolerance for rape"