August 13, 2015 Archive August 2015

What Bernie Sanders fans miss about Black Lives Matter: White supremacy is bigger than economics

Watch Los Angeles save water by dumping thousands of plastic balls into a reservoir

Jimmy Carter announces cancer diagnosis

Watch the first trailer for Quentin Tarantino's menacingly dark "The Hateful Eight"

The real lesson of Donald Trump's support for Planned Parenthood: The GOP primary has stopped making sense entirely

You Must Hear This! Margo Guryan's "Sunday Morning"

The worst Best Picture decade: How "Crash" capped off the strange crossover years when the Academy lost its collective mind

The GOP's real Donald Trump problem: They've created a monster that they don't know how to control

The 7 most damning details from The Hollywood Reporter's "Fantastic Four" expose: "Nobody should escape scrutiny on this one"

The lawn's gotta go: Nostalgia and drought just don't mix

R.I.P. Columbia House: Cheap, disposable music lives on, but the one club to which everyone could belong is finally broke

Cuckservatives, libtards and the obscenities of angry white men: "If he’d called [Megyn Kelly] a bitch, we’d never see Donald Trump again"

"Straight Outta Compton" and the prehistory of #BlackLivesMatter: How gangsta rap shaped our culture

Cliven Bundy pal Rand Paul thinks his campaign resonates with young voters in Ferguson

Conservatives' crippling masculinity crisis: Cuckservatives, men's rights activism and the privilege the right refuses to acknowledge

Donald is the captain now: How Fox News hijacked the Republican Party

America welcomes permanent war: Vietnam and the demise of the anti-war movement

The glaring logical flaw at the heart of Rand Paul's economic plan

Trump the indestructible: Not even his bizarre Planned Parenthood defense will do him in

Ted Cruz's grotesque demagoguery: Planned Parenthood prosecutions, polio and American "values"

Pope Francis goes to Washington: Why congressional GOPers are about to get a papal smackdown

Three more women accuse Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting them

"We will not accept trickle-down justice": Van Jones on mass incarceration, white liberals and "the black freedom struggle"

Megyn Kelly admits that GOP candidate addressing race is "a remarkable moment in the GOP race for the White House"

Ben Carson's outrageous Planned Parenthood hypocrisy -- has performed research on aborted fetal brain tissue

Larry Wilmore mocks Black Lives Matter activists at Sanders rally: "Black manners matter as well"

Black Lives Matter activists interrupt Jeb Bush rally as supporters chant "all lives matter"

We've already blown through our supply of Earth's resources for the year

Bill O'Reilly literally phoned in this Benghazi conspiracy theory last night

Syfy's new "Childhood's End" could be the perfect show for our quasi-populist, government-hating times

Rand Paul's feud with Trump escalates: "I easily beat him on the golf course and will even more easily beat him now"

Chelsea Manning could face indefinite solitary confinement for possessing Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair and an expired tube of toothpaste

Rand Paul’s epic implosion: What his unwinnable fight with Donald Trump says about a campaign gone wrong

Larry Wilmore goes for broke against racist Lowe's customer who complained about black delivery guy

Stop ogling teen stars' bodies: Ariel Winter calls out the sexism and bodyshaming behind the "crazy cleavage" headlines

David Oyelowo is the first black James Bond (sort of)

Fox News host's painfully awkward Donald Trump faux pas: Brings up Megyn Kelly comments, and co-hosts fall deathly silent

"You shouldn't be automatically disqualified": Hillary Clinton strengthens criminal justice platform with "Ban the Box" support

Please let the HBO "Deadwood" movie rumors be true

Dr. Dre discusses assault allegations while Ice Cube dismisses N.W.A.'s misogyny: "If you’re a b*tch, you’re probably not going to like us"

Behold: The sexiest song you can perform on TV (without being sued into oblivion by a record label)

Jay Leno blames "mean streak" for Kimmel's low ratings, weighs in on new generation of late night

The GOP's most ludicrous election myth: "The Reasonable Republican"

Being Blunt: The Price of Workplace Pandemonium

Another Kentucky official just got caught on camera refusing a marriage license to same-sex couple

GOP hawks are all the same: Jeb Bush is hardly the only candidate with an Iraq war problem

Donald Trump's foreign-policy platform is so catastrophically bad that world leaders are now taking the time to pan it: "It reflects an enormous ignorance"