August 19, 2015 Archive August 2015

Watch the secret "Friends" scene that was hastily deleted after September 11

Data is not always "liberating": The New York Times was right to focus on Amazon's damage to real people instead

The dark side of Donald Trump: How gridlock leads to dangerous populism & authoritarian zeal

Jessica Alba thinks Gwyneth Paltrow comparisons are sexist: “What I think is unfair is to lump actresses together”

Republicans' vile anti-gay crusade: RNC endorses legislation to protect discrimination

"Dr. Dre straddled me and beat me mercilessly": Dee Barnes rejects "revisionist history" of "Straight Outta Compton" in powerful essay

Jared "From Subway" Fogle expected to plead guilty on child pornography charges

UPDATED: Rosie O’Donnell’s 17-year-old missing daughter found

Which of these 8 so-called aphrodisiacs is the real deal?

K-pop: Holding up a fast, fizzy funhouse mirror to American cultural imperialism

The destructive lie of American zoos: How we've blinded ourselves to the truths of the natural world

My secret hoarding shame: I lived with my trash. It was time to throw it all away

The 10 most cringeworthy Fox News interviews of the last decade

The rent really is too damn high: Why American renters have never had it worse

Misdirection and outright lies: Coca-Cola's obesity campaign is backfiring spectacularly

The war on "unlikeable women": Ariana Grande, Kim Kardashian and the brazen misogyny we choose to ignore

China's looming currency crisis: What it means for the rest of us

Donald Trump is tearing conservative media apart: How his candidacy sparked a right-wing civil war

Behind Trump's assault on birthright citizenship: The far right's dream of rolling back the Constitution, and reshaping America

Donald Trump tells Bill O'Reilly that Real Americans™ will have nothing to fear from proposed revision of 14th Amendment

Wing-nuts with guns & dreams of a race war: Inside the dangerous obsessions of right-wing extremists

America's two-party tyranny must finally be put to an end

The rise of the "self-proclaimed socialist": Why reporters shouldn't be so surprised that Bernie Sanders' appeal is growing

Larry Wilmore talks to Black Lives Matter activists who confronted Hillary Clinton about the importance of "making white people uncomfortable"

Rachel Maddow blasts Obama over Arctic drilling: "The most ill-timed and awkward thing he's done in a long time"

Being Blunt: When the News Becomes the News: A Playbook for Recovering

Subway pitchman Jared Fogle pleads guilty to child porn charges & paying for sex with minors

Seth Meyers explains what everybody needs to admit about Donald Trump

Anatomy of a man-tantrum: A woman shuts down the advances of an ex-"Harry Potter" podcast host and he freaks out

Fox News thinks it's just horrible that young people will learn about Rodney King beating from "Straight Outta Compton"

The astronomical cost of California's drought: $2.74 billion in 2015 alone

Let the drop-outs begin: Chris Hayes takes wagers on which GOP candidate will be first to withdraw

Twitter slams Amy Poehler for R. Kelly/Blue Ivy abuse joke: "How do you have a site dedicated to girls, and OK that line?"

"Kelly File" guest host Martha MacCullum's LGBTQ question renders Family Research Council's Tony Perkins unable to do basic math

"Jared from Subway" may be headed to prison, but his infamous pants remain free in promos for a disturbing "Subway Kids" app

Vox's Amazon fail, explained: Why Ezra Klein needs to stop telling white-collar workers to check their privilege

This one policy change could prevent up to 450 billion tons of carbon from polluting the atmosphere

Why the Ashley Madison hack should have everyone (yes, everyone) worried

This is the Patrick Stewart magic show you never knew you needed

Bob Odenkirk on straining against the confines of "SNL": "I wanted that show to be what I wanted it to be, not what it is"

Mike Huckabee: Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been "appalled" by #BlackLivesMatter movement

Damon Lindelof defends “Game of Thrones”: “We live in a clickbait-y media culture that exists to pick things apart"

Donald Trump gloats about beating Fox News: "We were at war ... but it's all fine now"

GOP's Obamacare replacement nightmare: Even Scott Walker is a RINO squish now

"Don't paint us as hillbillies": Man guarding "Muslim-free" gun range bends over, drops weapon, accidentally shoots self

The terrifying unanswered questions of the Ashley Madison hack

Black Lives Matter activist strikes back against smear campaign: "Glenn Beck and Breitbart don't give a sh*t about my race. They just want me to shut up."

Treatment-resistant "super lice" have taken over 25 U.S. states

Monsanto has a new pesticide that manipulates genes. What could go wrong?

Watch 70 horrific instances of Fox News sexism in under 6 minutes

Ben Carson takes immigration debate to insane new low, floats drone strikes at border

Fashion's toxic rules: Cara Delivingne's just the latest to push back against super-thin, highly-sexualized ideal