August 27, 2015 Archive August 2015

Father of slain TV reporter Alison Parker responds: "Not hearing her voice again crushes my soul"

"Mr. Robot" finale postponed because of graphic scene similar to Virginia TV journalist killings

Guilty of being black in a white world: The ludicrous reason these women were thrown off of a train last weekend

The GOP's nuclear option for Donald Trump: Why the only way to beat him is so scary

Not tonight, honey -- and maybe not ever again

Lessons from the Britpop wars: Brush off the pre-social media era dust and the relics of 1995 feel almost fresh again

The scifi fans are alright: I saw the future at the Hugo Awards — and it will never belong to the toxic right-wing trolls

America's latest dystopian nightmare: The horrifying media echo chamber of the Virginia TV shooting

Bernie pulls ahead: New poll shows Sanders leading in New Hampshire

The crumbling of Big Coal: Appalachia reels as an industry meets its demise

The GOP vs. libertarianism: How the party jettisoned Ayn Rand for corporate fascism

Marco Rubio's trickle-down nonsense: Tax cuts for the rich make sense because his father was a bartender!

Before Sandra Bland, there was Victor White: Why his death in police custody should have you outraged

The terrifying reality of the Virginia shooting: The NRA's vise-grip on Congress means nothing at all will change

George Zimmerman: Virginia "hate crime" shootings committed by "pansy" and condoned by "ignorant baboon" Barack Obama

Dinesh D'Souza jokes about the deaths of Alison Parker and Adam Ward on Twitter

Tragedy, broadcast live: The Virginia TV shootings and the mass trauma of media used purposefully and violently against us

Rand Paul whitesplains why Black Lives Matter should change its name to "All Lives Matter"

Miley Cyrus goes undercover to find out what Americans really think of her: "America is falling apart and Miley Cyrus is doing nothing to keep it together"

Alison Parker's father and fiance vow to "shame legislators" into passing gun control legislation

Mass shootings and the dark side of American exceptionalism: "They happen because there’s a large gap between what people are aspiring to and what they can realistically achieve"

Fox News' Jesse Watters: Univision's Jorge Ramos "acted like an illegal alien and got treated like one"

We have proof that diversity sells movies — so why can't all of Hollywood catch up?

Video: Virginia's WDBJ airs tearful moment of silence for slain journalists

Donald Trump slams Jeb Bush -- from the left: The Donald blasts Bush's Wall Street ties

The American religion of guns & money has blinded us to an epidemic of death

Gun crazy: America's love of guns is deeply coded in our national myth -- and we can't change until we face that

Twitter has found the perfect way to mock everything infuriating about Jonathan Franzen

Twitter conservatives turn Alison Parker and Adam Ward's murders into anti-gay joke with #TakeItDown hashtag

Scott Walker doubles down on insane ISIS-union comparison: "I have the capacity to handle pressure"

High heels for babies are a thing: Should the first steps into sexualization happen before girls can even walk?

The ugly reality of Trumpism: The Donald's campaign is amplifying the right's gross nativism

The worst Jorge Ramos slur comes from CNN, not Fox News: Wingnut analyst compares him to Vester Flanagan

Why the rich love Burning Man

Stephen Colbert reveals the truth about his "Colbert Report" character: "I had to actually leave — I had to change”

Watch Donald Trump refuse to name any verses in his "favorite" book, The Bible

Miley Cyrus is probably going to break the internet at Sunday’s VMAs

Are these really the best songs of the '80s?: Picking apart Pitchfork's fascinating, frustrating list

"When you lose your land, you lose part of yourself": Watch this poignant short film about resilience in the aftermath of Katrina

30 people Taylor Swift hasn't performed with (yet)