August 24, 2015 Archive August 2015

You can't make "Game of Thrones" on a YouTube budget: Why "it's the best of times and the worst of times" for prestige TV

I’m black, but I’m uncomfortable around black people

The porn women actually want to watch

The science of forgiveness: “When you don’t forgive you release all the chemicals of the stress response”

Right on banks, wrong on schools: "No Child Left Behind wasn't designed for the types of realities in my school"

Slavoj Žižek: Ayn Rand's Tea Party lie -- Now we know who John Galt is

5 worst right-wing moments of the week -- Andrea Tantaros sees misandry everywhere

Paul Krugman: GOP desire to strangle the welfare state with austerity born of "an emotional prejudice"

The GOP's despicable pregnancy plan: The truth doesn't matter — only winning does

The unbearable whiteness of money in politics: The disturbing reality of how America is being bought & sold

The sinister truth about Donald Trump: How American politics have been hijacked by cults of personality

Christian vlogger caught in Ashley Madison scandal kicked out of conference for "threatening violence"

John Oliver reveals the shocking, “surprisingly legal” ways in which gay people can still be discriminated against

Tucker Carlson: Tennessee schools ban Confederate flag because liberals "hate expressions of patriotism"

Joe Biden's private meeting with Elizabeth Warren fuels 2016 speculation

Paul Haggis slams journalists for going soft on Tom Cruise’s Scientology involvement: “Shame on you”

Ben Carson says he's open to being Donald Trump's VP: A match made in wingnut heaven?

The forgotten GOP past of the Democratic field: What their political odysseys say about American politics

Greenland's fastest-melting glacier may have just set a terrifying new record

“Jurassic World” director sparks debate over lack of female directors: "Many of the top female directors in our industry are not interested”

Jon Stewart's first act of retirement: Attacking pro wrestler John Cena with a steel chair

Rapper Wiz Khalifa slammed to floor, handcuffed for riding "hoverboard" at LAX

Donald Trump reacts to stock market plunge exactly as you'd expect

Bill Kristol's best idea yet: Sam Alito for president!

Quentin Tarantino's favorite TV shows might surprise you

Morrissey's writing a novel: Will "List of the Lost" be a morose delight or a shrill garbage fire?

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be an even bigger dump than we thought

No more porn in Hilton hotels: The conservative sex-shaming lobby claims a major victory

Ken Burns: Donald Trump's birtherism — a "politer way of saying the 'N-word'" — proves America isn't remotely "post-racial"

The real bully in "The Karate Kid" isn't a Cobra Kai — it's that insecure sociopath Daniel LaRusso

Donald Trump’s Southern strategy: What his Alabama pep rally revealed about the right's new racial politics

Rupert Murdoch relentlessly mocked for Michael Bloomberg 2016 fantasy

Gaby Hoffmann doesn't choose her delightfully off-beat roles — they choose her: "I don’t think anybody would ever cast me in the girlfriend role or the sex symbol"

"Utter ignorance": Jerry Brown calls out Carly Fiorina for her ridiculous theory that liberals are responsible for California's drought

Scott Walker's stunning implosion: Can this dope's campaign be saved?

13-year-old “Girl Meets World” star pens powerful essay on intersectional feminism: "The way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different”

Scott Walker digs himself an even deeper hole: How his immigration morass just got worse

Antibiotic-resistant superbugs found lurking in 1 in 5 conventional ground beef samples

The line-up for the first week of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" was just announced -- and you're going to want to see this

Tracy Morgan has married his longtime girlfriend