July 17, 2015 Archive July 2015

Carnage in Chattanooga: Four Marines and gunman killed in Tennessee mass shooting

Key & Peele give men a much-needed lesson on menstruation

It’s heritage, all right: What those ugly anti-Obama Confederate flag protests really mean

Painful past, bright future: What Caitlyn Jenner and 14-year-old TLC star Jazz Jennings do — and don't — have in common

"Another great American immigration story": Wingnuts respond to the Chattanooga shooting

Reading Harper Lee in the wake of Charleston: Shame, defeat and the real tragedy of "Go Set a Watchman"

The Donald Trump Silver lining: He's the best thing to happen to comedy since Sarah Palin

Why the Donald Trump butt plug is a political insult for the ages

Inside "The Stanford Prison Experiment": Six days in a fake prison, and how they changed the world

Sanders' "small donor" base: How the fundraising numbers break down

New York City is reforming its bail system -- but it doesn't go nearly far enough

"It’s talking about saving money": EPA head Gina McCarthy sounds off on the benefits of climate action

So much for that "rebrand": Brutal new poll shows depth of Republicans' Latino problem

Paul Krugman: Conservatives need to stop shouting "Benghazi!" and listen to what Hillary Clinton has to say

The Daily Donald: "I was probably drunk," Donald Trump donors explain their support

David Brooks scolds Ta-Nehisi Coates: "I think you distort history"

John McCain is a "dummy" and Rick Perry needs an IQ test: Donald Trump lets loose on Twitter

Watch: Jimmy Fallon & Bill Hader’s buddy-cop spoof is totally gross and absolutely mesmerizing

Open season on David Brooks: Twitter erupts at clueless New York Times' columnist's masterful trolling

Rachel Maddow on the ignorant scramble for answers in Chattanooga: "We do not yet know enough"

Cara Delevingne sets the record straight: "My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am”

The GOP might actually be helpful: Chris Hayes explains why Obama's push for prison reform could work

"Act on climate!": Hillary Clinton gets heckled by protestors who want her to crack down on fossil fuels

Jennifer Lawrence may not be exiting X-Men after all: “ I don’t want to not be asked”

"Gorilla face Michelle" Obama only attractive to "monkey man Barack": WA mayor refuses to resign after racist Facebook rant

The GOP's deranged foreign-policy dream: Build a wall around America—and then prepare for World War III

Rick Perry is the only GOP candidate brave enough to call out Donald Trump (and that's terrifying)

Sandra Bland: Do #BlackLivesMatter to Fox News? Salon checks the tape to find out

The ominous first teaser for the "X-Files" reboot has arrived

It's time to draft Al Gore: If Democrats want to win, it's clear neither Hillary nor Sanders is the way

You Must Hear This! The New Tweedy Brothers

Ben Shapiro tries -- and spectacularly fails -- to humiliate trans woman Zoey Tur: "What are your genetics, sir?"

There's a very big problem with this year's Emmy nominations

Fact-checking Bill O'Reilly's dumb, hateful lies: Fox News propaganda breaks new ground

Sexist scold Andrea Peyser offers predictably gross defense of Bill Cosby: "Not long ago, society looked at rape differently"

It's time to rewrite the Constitution: Why our governments ability to decide war & peace is totally broken

“What happened in that jail?”: Everything you need to know about the tragic & mysterious death of Sandra Bland

The latest Donald Trump stunt: When politics becomes a sideshow, is the circus still politics?

"Ant-Man": Paul Rudd's muddled mini-Marvel movie offers tripped-out, pointless summer fun

"You just slammed my head into the ground!" The 90 seconds that explain the Sandra Bland mystery

Danielle Brooks' bikini-ready body: Why seeing the "Orange Is The New Black" actress in a two-piece matters

Gawker drags media coverage to a new low, outing an executive just because they can

Iowa Rep. Steve King tweets that he's "as Hispanic and Latino" as HUD Sec. Julian Castro

Did Planned Parenthood's president really need to apologize for the tissue donation video?

Beach sand is teeming with fecal bacteria

Bobby Jindal should just shut up: His simple-minded, dishonest Chattanooga comments make things worse

How a Mexican drug kingpin's daring prison escape made him a hip-hop icon & an outlaw hero

"Let's burn it down!": Detroit Christians conspire to prevent Satanic Temple from unveiling Baphomet statue