October 16, 2015 Archive October 2015

Jennifer Lawrence's peers rally around her wage gap protest: "It's completely unfair. It’s not right. It’s been happening for years"

The one time Bill Maher's anti-Muslim rants actually helped anyone: When Hasan Minhaj landed his “Daily Show” gig

Stephen Colbert just did the impression that could forever define Bernie Sanders

Fox News got scammed: Turns out their CIA "terrorism expert" was never in the CIA

"People are waiting for [politicians] to slip up so they can make fun of them on their late night comedy shows": Late night hosts are nailing election coverage

This type of hypnosis won’t make you quack like a duck but it might help you lose weight and conquer phobias, stress

Fox News' dimmest bulb offers gross tipping defense, likes to "slap down" to impress waitresses

Meet America's most idiotic state representative, Thursday edition

Bill Gates and Elon Musk are wrong: Artificial intelligence is not going to take over the world

Death and the Bratayley family: An Internet-famous child's death sparks an ugly backlash

Amy Schumer cleans up her act: After a summer of backlash, her new HBO special mostly avoids jokes about race

Hillary vs. Hillary: In the "Alien vs. Predator" cage match between the humane and reasonable debate winner and the cynical neoliberal hawk, do any of us actually win?

16 times the Onion masterfully trolled American politics

The senator who won't shoot straight: What Bernie Sanders gets wrong about gun control

Sorry, Hillary, but most Americans yearn for Bernie's democratic socialism

America's cities are doomed: New York could be unlivable in a matter of decades

Bernie Sanders can still win: As Hillary and Trump cheerlead for capitalism, here's how to reach the 99 percent

Ted Cruz's crazy "jackboot" talk: When inflammatory rhetoric starts getting dangerous

The debate's most important question: Are Democrats finally getting real about capitalism?

Bill O'Reilly's absurd "Black KKK" lie: Explaining the history that dismantles his slanderous Black Lives Matter crusade

"The Daily Show" unravels America's dumbest mayor: This pol sent the cops to shut down parody Twitter account

Watch: Larry Wilmore's must-see takedown of lazy, racist cops

The big issue everyone but CNN is talking about -- and why our democracy depends on it

Joe Biden probably won't run for president -- and that's actually great news for Bernie Sanders

Paranoid rise of the militant right: Inside the growing threat of domestic extremism

Bernie Sanders smacks down Martin Shkreli: Rejects meeting and donation from hated drug CEO

Paul Krugman: Wall Street loves GOP because "with great wealth comes great pettiness"

After her interview with Charles Koch last night, the only question is: Where's Megyn Kelly's vaunted integrity now?

White hunter kills majestic African elephant on safari: Social media erupts as it's Cecil the Lion all over again

"Cooked as a party" shocker: Republican chairman admits "terrible feeling" about GOP's future

"Moosechelle" and "Dat b*tch" Hillary insults take down idiot Illinois official

"The only Bush that's not shaved!": If GOP candidates were actually strippers, as Huckabee suggests

Sam Harris slams liberals who "followed Noam Chomsky off the edge of the world"

The most cringeworthy moments from Emilia Clarke's sexiest woman alive profile

"Ammo's expensive. Don't waste a bullet on a warning shot": Watch Sarah Palin preach to the NRA in a new film about gun control and Christianity

Martin Shkreli, poor little rich bro: The most hated man in pharma is "furious" he couldn't meet with Bernie Sanders

5 fascinating insights from Taylor Swift's Chuck Klosterman interview that aren't about Nicki Minaj

Target customers shocked when porn plays over intercom: "People were screaming at employees"

The ugly Bernie Sanders' fans freakout: Hipster left melts down with media conspiracy theories

Karl Rove rags on Bernie Sanders: "An elderly dyspeptic Bilbo Baggins"

Welcome to the conservative apocalypse! First David Brooks, now the party chairman figures out right-wing clusterf**k

The grifters captured the GOP: How Trump, Carson and the con artists hijacked the presidency

Ann Coulter tries — and fails, spectacularly — to defend her white privilege to the women of "The View"

Donald Trump gets schooled by Asian-American student — then demands to know if he's from South Korea

Jeb's ticking clock: With his campaign still flailing, donors are questioning their investment

Bill O'Reilly's "Killing Reagan" dismantled by scholars who have written 19 books on the former president

Donald Trump's raging xenophobia: He'd never demand a white Harvard student tell him he's "from"

Gloria Steinem tells Lena Dunham why crying at work is powerful

Donald Trump has no qualms blaming George W. Bush for 9/11: "Say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time"

Josh Ritter preaches his "messianic oracular honky tonk": "I don’t feel a huge connection to religion, except as a large accumulation of confusing, confusing stories"

Ben Carson, a grifter on the wingnut welfare circuit: How he just gave away the act

“The Big Bang Theory” Nice Guy™ fantasies are clearly out of control

The GOP's entire identity is based on a lie: How the Obama presidency exposed Republican deficit delusions

Men need rape crisis care, too: We know men are sexually assaulted — why is it so hard for them to get help?