July 23, 2015 Archive July 2015

Thanks, Donald Trump! How his insane campaign and (fingers crossed) third-party bid dooms the GOP

Fundraiser for Baltimore cops charged in Freddie Gray's death to feature blackface performance

Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson explain literally everything in the universe in under 8 minutes

Elizabeth Warren humiliates executive invited by Senate Republicans to defend opposition to financial regulations

Good news/bad news, guys: Women don't care about penis size — but they do have opinions about your pubic hair

Ben Carson thinks prison is too comfy: "I was flabbergasted by the accommodations"

The inevitable Taylor Swift backlash begins: Watching the critical mad love crumble, right on schedule

LeBron James' company scores Warner Bros. TV, movie deal

Katy Perry shuts Taylor Swift down over her Nicki Minaj blunder

Nicki Minaj cares too much about MTV and the "white kids" awards— and here's why she's not wrong

10 "Seinfeld" episodes that are racist and sexist in retrospect

I was slimed by Gawker: In the worst year of my life, I became a regular target — and it was devastating

Unraveling the axis of stupid: How Iran deal sends neocons, exceptionalists and Fox News xenophobes to dustbin of history

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