- Jesse Williams’ brilliant Twitter epic on race and police: “A select segment of Americans are granted the privilege of being able to resist said tyranny, scream at it, punch, shove or elude it”
- Texas fights immigrants’ lawsuit over birth certificates
- How the media missed the Donald Trump surge
- There’s a scientific reason for the racism built into America’s criminal justice system
- There is something very, very strange going on inside the heads of people using this fast-acting psychedelic
- Obamacare’s surprising best ally: A flaky GOP that can’t get its “repeal” act together
- GOP’s Trump smackdown contest: Why it’s all about picking the biggest possible fight with The Donald
- “I’ll never forget the look of fear on my baby’s face”: Mother of Marcy’s Diner “monster” fires back at owner
- Milwaukee is drowning in a sea of gun violence — and Scott Walker wants to make it worse
- Germany is the hypocritical worst: Arrogance, austerity — and zero sense of history
- “White People” probably won’t change anyone’s mind on race, identity and what it means to be white
- Donald Trump’s bizarro world: How the billionaire blowhard is duping America (with the help of the political press)
- “Daily Show” classics: Jon Stewart grills Christina Aguilera about “strip joints”
- Federal charges including hate crimes for accused shooter
- “Hypocrite,” “Dumb guy”: 24 hours in Donald Trump’s egomaniacal Twitter fights
- Montel Williams: Why did the Baltimore PD union “emphasize respect” for blackface performer in its statement on canceled fundraiser?
- Ohio Gov. John Kasich to meet with 2012 nominee Mitt Romney
- The Daily Donald: Trump teases third party run if GOP doesn’t stroke his ego enough
- Jon Stewart explains why he needs to take a Donald Trump break: “Much like incessant masturbation, eventually you feel a deep sense of shame”
- Marco Rubio’s “yesterday” campaign: His attacks on Obama’s “class” make him sound like an old curmudgeon
- Tom Cotton just took the Iran debate to an insane new low
- Bernie Sanders does his own math: Here’s what we’re missing about his early racial stumbles
- Rachel Maddow: Donald Trump’s campaign — stunt or not — is “a gift from God”
- “You’re fundamentally wrong on civics”: Rachel Maddow schools Rick Santorum on the Constitution
- Ed Sheeran defends Taylor Swift: “Beyonce’s 7/11 is in there and that is celebrating the female figure in every form”
- Perpetrator of Planned Parenthood hoax tells Hannity that many more (unethically edited) videos are in the works
- Aaron Paul has the perfect solution to the Nicki Minaj-Taylor Swift controversy
- Watch: “Knee-high” piles of mayflies take over Iowa bridge
- “The Equality Act”: Democrats push bill banning LGBT discrimination
- “I’ll never forget the look of fear on my baby’s face”: The Marcy’s Diner “local hero” backlash begins
- Don’t call it a “feud”: If you’re on Team Taylor or Team Nicki, you’re missing the point
- I could have been Sandra Bland: Black America’s terrifying truth
- Taylor Swift apologizes to Nicki Minaj: “I missed the point, I misunderstood, then misspoke”
- Megyn Kelly and Dana Perino: Hillary Clinton just “pandering” to black voters with Sandra Bland remarks
- Walker’s dangerous foreign policy: Pushing for more war while sounding relatively moderate
- Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro: You’re “stupider than a three year old” if you believe trans people should be accepted
- 10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos
- GOP establishment’s dumbest idea: Boycott the debates until Trump is kicked out!
- 10 times Jesse Williams spoke out against racism, police brutality and injustice
- Watch Ryan Adams’ incredible tribute to fellow injured musician Dave Grohl: “Doing what he loved even though he was totally broken”
- Funny or Die skewers Trump for “war hero” comments in spot-on parody
- Phelps, other stars missing from swimming worlds in Russia
- “A Gay Girl in Damascus”: Behind the twisted tale of a blogger who “catfished” the whole world
- “F**k! Fox News! S**t! Bleep!” Watch Jon Stewart’s most epic, expletive-filled “Daily Show” tirades
- Joshua Clover on his accidental hit Twitter tale #HowIQuitSpin: “I literally believed it would be the two of them reading it”
- Jeb Bush tells attendees at Koch brothers event that it’s time start “phasing out” Medicare
- “Progress” isn’t always progressive: What Uber’s celebrity defenders don’t understand
- Barney Frank unloads on pro-Sanders progressives: Says they’re only helping GOP win
- The strange new world of MSNBC: Anatomy of a cable-news identity crisis
- Donald Trump says Jon Stewart has been “begging” him to appear on “Daily Show” finale
- Cosby’s lawyers go on the attack against sexual assault accusations with the “volume does not make it true” defense
- “If you don’t want to get shot, just do what I tell you”: American cops are on a dangerous power trip
- The Planned Parenthood hoax has devolved into a string of Nazi comparisons
- How the Dow Jones industrial average fared on Thursday
- Wyatt Cenac: Jon Stewart told me to “f*ck off” after I challenged him on racially charged impression
- “Southpaw”: A gripping, conflicted fable of a white champ in an imagined America
- Time to retire “haters gonna hate”: With Taylor Swift’s apology, the bright new post- “Shake It Off” era is born
- Jon Stewart faces his next chapter: Goodbye to “the joy machine” of the writing room and the anxiety of being the poster boy for the left
- When the absolute right to snark turns sour: A Gawker believer reconsiders the manifesto he once held dear
