August 25, 2015 Archive August 2015

Anatomy of a Hillary Clinton pseudo-scandal: How Republicans and their media lackeys are trying to manufacture her downfall

Scott Walker is just begging you to notice him: Now he wants Obama to cancel Chinese leader's visit

Jeb is the worst, part infinity: Bush says "anchor babies" remark is "frankly more related to Asian people"

"Text neck" is a thing: 5 frightening maladies of the digital era

CNBC host melts down as markets open and immediately crash: "I — I — I got to make some phone calls"

Beyoncé's deafening silence: Why #BlackLivesMatter needs her voice now more than ever — in Vogue and beyond

Football, brain injuries and right-wing denial: The paranoid he-man propaganda that insists the game is safer than ever

The New York Times sells out artists: Shallow data paints a too-rosy picture of "thriving" creative class in the digital age

Donald Trump keeps lying about his crowd numbers -- and the media keeps letting him

Joseph Stiglitz: Historical amnesia threatens Europe's ruination

Robert Reich: The sharing economy will be our undoing

The GOP's austerity hawks are throwing away a golden opportunity (again)

This could be how Trump's momentum ends: Why his flip-flop on self-funding undercuts his appeal

White people aren't the enemy: Why social justice demands a rainbow coalition of minorities & poor whites

These candidates can't take a joke: Inside the baffling humorlessness of presidential politics

Donald Trump's incoherent China-bashing: Why his response to yesterday's market plunge is (vaguely racist) gibberish

"The bimbo's back in town": Donald Trump live-tweets Megyn Kelly's return to Fox News

"Get them the hell out of our country": Donald Trump calls for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants

Bernie Sanders is wrong about the Koch brothers: They're even more dangerous than he thinks

Bob Odenkirk forces Jimmy Kimmel to ask him the questions everyone is too afraid to ask

Video: Will the almond capitol of the world survive the worst drought in decades?

Cornel West formally endorses "brother" Bernie Sanders: "A long-distance runner with integrity in the struggle for justice"

Rand buys himself a caucus: Some much-needed (and expensive) good news for a struggling candidate

Megyn Kelly demands Cornel West explain why #BlackLivesMatter doesn't protest black-on-black violence

"Standing in the way of progress": Obama calls out the Koch brothers over their anti-solar hypocrisy

I'm a teacher, and I'm tired of being scapegoated: Why the GOP's attacks on educators flunk the evidence test

Respectability will not save us: Black Lives Matter is right to reject the "dignity and decorum" mandate handed down to us from slavery

Dee Barnes responds to Dr. Dre's apology: "This is bigger than me, and bigger than hip-hop"

Donald Trump sparks GOP establishment panic: State parties plot to derail surging campaign

Students protesting Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home": How clinging to "Christian moral beliefs" can end an education before it even begins

Detroit Police Chief cherry-picks statistics, claims drop in murders and violent crimes due to increase in citizens "packing heat"

An ugly new frontier in GOP race-baiting: Attacking the Asian menace

Stephen Hawking may have unlocked one of science's biggest mysteries

The empire strikes back: Dick Cheney, Benjamin Netanyahu and the rebirth of neoconservatism

Another "Serial" bombshell: Cellphone evidence used against Adnan Syed may be faulty

Caught in the smart-mean trap: Is "Another Period" funny, or just awkwardly tasteless?

Scott Walker and Jeb Bush try Trumpism: Unsurprisingly, they just look like dopes

Zoe Kravitz shares mom Lisa Bonet's views on Cosby: "She’s just as disgusted and concerned as everyone else is"

Summer of the insurgents: Donald Trump & Bernie Sanders dominate New Hampshire poll

The one thing Jon Stewart and Chris Christie can agree on: A salute to Bruce Springsteen, on the 40th anniversary of "Born to Run"

Alabama cheerleading coach banned for complaining about pro-KKK t-shirt worn by the team's assistant vice president

"How seriously should I take this?": Chris Hayes games out a Biden 2016 campaign

10 photos that prove you should stop staring at your computer and go enjoy a National Park for free today

Dick Cheney hands Obama an Iran victory: His speech denouncing diplomacy is good news for the nuclear deal

ESPN suspends analyst Curt Schilling from Little League World Series coverage for Islamophobic tweet

The Fox News-Donald Trump truce is over: Roger Ailes demands apology for Trump's latest Megyn Kelly insults

The media's addiction to Trump news is devastatingly real -- and here's the proof

Today in Taylor Swift Twitter feuds: Avril Lavigne slams star for being judgmental

Jeb's Asian "anchor baby" panic: Childbirth isn't a Trojan horse scam, no matter where the parents were born