August 20, 2015 Archive August 2015

Donald Trump cited as potential influence in brutal attack on homeless Hispanic man

Donald Trump is a bombastic disaster: A video guide to his 14 most ludicrous campaign moments

Rise & fall of the anti-Trumps: Why these GOP pretenders don't have a snowball's chance in hell

Shannen Doherty says insurance negligence allowed her invasive breast cancer to spread

I bought nothing new for 200 days

Morrissey gives the most Morrissey interview possible to Larry King: "Obama — is he white inside? It’s a very logical question"

My education in toxic masculinity: Fist fights, bullying, and the strange glory of MMA

It's time to reread Dave Eggers' "The Circle": Why his under-appreciated Silicon Valley workplace novel resonates now more than ever

The 7 worst rip-offs you're still falling for

5 reasons why it's so difficult for women to join the atheist movement

Corgis are for extroverts: What your favorite dog breed says about you

Everything wrong with our corporate media in a single slobbering segment

Thomas Jefferson's urgent lesson for America: The less force we wield, the more powerful we become

“When the people lead the leaders will follow”: Can activists reverse Obama's disastrous Arctic drilling decision?

The truth about Donald Trump's money: The scientific case for doubting his fantastical claims

The death of birthright citizenship: How Donald Trump is taking a fringe idea into the mainstream

Bad Lip Reading somehow manages to make the first GOP presidential debate even more absurd

Conservative radio host's comically horrific immigration plan: Let's reinstitute slavery to build Donald Trump's wall

The GOP's glaring "birthright" hypocrisy: How the 14th amendment also gave birth to corporate personhood

When we are all allowed to fail like white men: Here's a practical model to solve Hollywood's diversity problems

Missouri Republican Bill Kidd offers proposal to prevent sexual harassment of legislative interns — a dress code for victims

Ann Coulter defends Donald Trump's immigration policy from Fox News: "Good God, Bill O'Reilly's stupid"

Larry Wilmore perfectly schools Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal and Scott Walker on the importance of birthright citizenship

Rachel Maddow: Donald Trump is the monster truck in the GOP demolition derby

Plutocrats love Jeb, but voters don't: Bush's "electability" argument is getting even weaker

Not surprisingly, the list of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses puts the industry's race and gender bias in stark relief

Jimmy Carter says cancer has spread to brain, but he's "surprisingly at ease"

Scientists figured out just how much of California's drought can be blamed on climate change

Original "Straight Outta Compton" script included Dr. Dre's assault of Dee Barnes

Jeb's Kasich jitters: Bush campaign getting increasingly nervous as Ohio governor picks up steam

Tig Notaro explains why she went topless for her new HBO special: "I was being heckled by my own brain"

White America needs to wake up: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders & the unacknowledged crimes of American justice

St. Louis police deploy tear gas against protesters in night of unrest over killing of 18-year-old man

Donald Trump says he has no choice but to "scare" Pope Francis: "I'd say, 'ISIS wants to get you'"

"Star Wars: Force Awakens" poster artist: "It is far and away probably going to be the best 'Star Wars' you’ve ever seen"

This new TV show is totally not about Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Scientology — and we'll be watching, for sure

Jeb's doomed Trump strategy: Bush tries to play mean -- but there's no way he wins an insult contest with The Donald

Josh Duggar's Ashley Madison account: Celebrity infidelity doesn't justify the outing of hacked clients

Private prisons get Bern-ed: Sanders proposes abolishing for-profit facilities

Mariah Carey has no respect for reality stars

Donald Trump is the harbinger of GOP doom: The devastating history lesson that Republicans are completely ignoring

Hannibal Buress skewers Bill Cosby in spot-on rendering of "Kids Say the Darndest Things"

Researchers use solar power to make carbon fiber out of thin air

George W. Bush comes out of hiding to make fundraising pitch for flailing Jeb

Wrath of the Fox News crazies: How Donald Trump & Sarah Palin are earning Olympic gold medals for xenophobic insanity

Josh Duggar cops to porn addiction: "I have been the biggest hypocrite ever"