January 15, 2016 Archive January 2016

Our favorite villain Alan Rickman’s most brilliantly wicked on screen moments

Donald Trump now has an "official jam": Freedom Kids open Florida rally with hilariously catchy, "Ameritude" praising jingle

"Mad Max: Fury Road" is the best picture of 2015: Here's why this miraculous Oscar nominee deserves to win

The base turns On Nikki Haley: They don't want code words, they want to hear blunt racism

The cost of homophobia: Kentucky ordered to pay $1.1 million to attorneys on SCOTUS marriage equality case

"We're not on the same wavelength": Autistic and in love

Jennifer Lawrence's "Dean Scream": Her Golden Globes reporter "scolding" sparked an inevitable backlash

The end of Ted's excellent adventure? How a New York Times bombshell and Donald Trump could finish Cruz

Remembering Alan Rickman's pro-Palestinian play about Rachel Corrie, American activist crushed by Israeli bulldozer

Hillary Clinton's fatal weakness exposed yet again: Why Bernie Sanders' surge is exposing her biggest political shortcoming

Planned Parenthood strikes back at right-wing scam artists with major lawsuit: Here's what you need to know

#BlackGirlsAreMagic: Elle Magazine doesn't get what this hashtag is all about

"Greater than anything we've seen in this country": Trump declares his "movement" bigger than Reagan's

There will be chaos: Big Oil's collapse and the birth of a new world order

Thank you, Oregon militiamen: The longer you stay, the more ridiculous you and the conservative movement look

Pot smoking's been connected to everything from lowered IQ to mental illness. Where's the truth?

"The Danish Girl’s" ersatz Oscar bait: Academy can pat self on back for Eddie Redmayne's undeserved nomination

The Oscars' death spiral: The academy and Hollywood are locked in a crisis of their own making

Stop dismissing President Trump: "Smart people" thought we'd never elect Ronald Reagan, too

Ben Carson accuses Obama of not living in 21st Century, proceeds to talk about "existential threats" from '90s techno-thrillers

Ted Cruz rips into Donald Trump for spreading lies about his eligibility to run for president

They love to scare you: Republicans start debate by implying terrorists might kill us all by November

In "a zombie apocalypse, I hope the undead who lost their lives on 9/11 specifically devour Republicans": Graciously, Patton Oswalt returns to live-tweeting the GOP debate

Trump will be everything to every bigot -- claims police being "the most mistreated people this country"

Trump and Cruz's laughable patriotism clash: Who's less American – Canadians or New Yorkers?

"New York City is not America": Right-wing Twitter more unhinged than candidates during GOP presidential debate

Big moment for desperate Rubio: He crushes Cruz for his immigration flip-flops, but are GOP voters paying attention?

Fox's miserable debate night: How Trump & Cruz ran wild while the network looked out of its depth

The true tragedy of Cecil the lion the media has overlooked

The Pentagon is out of ideas: America's ISIS strategy is doomed from the start

"Minority Report" is coming true: We now have threat scores to match our credit scores

Michael Moore might save Flint: Moore, Jon Stewart, John Oliver keep proving satirists get more done than politicians

Scholars expose Iraq War supporters' most absurd claim yet: No, Saddam didn't create ISIS

Another reason Hillary should be nervous: Bernie's backing by MoveOn.org proves she's lost young progressives

Will the memeification and autotuning of news interviews with poor and working-class people of color ever end?

"You're getting dildos in the mail because you can go f**k yourself": Larry Wilmore explains the care packages the Oregon militia got

Jimmy Fallon is so f**king spineless: At least his Hillary and Trump interviews were equally lame

Exclusive! Sneak peek at the Official Republican National Convention Agenda!

NBC finally gets the diversity memo: Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria and America Ferrera head 3 very different shows aimed at Latina viewers

Trump & Cruz declare all-out war: The real battle for GOP primary supremacy has finally begun

Paul Krugman: Conservatives want you to believe there's "a longer-term case in favor of vast inequality"

City official has man dress up as old woman for photo op

ICYMI: Watch the sixth GOP presidential debate in 3 minutes

Watch the most heated battles at the sixth GOP presidential debate

Rachel Maddow confronts Hillary Clinton over her campaign's negative turn against Bernie Sanders: "Your campaign, in my estimation, set its hair on fire"

Marco Rubio, conspiracy theorist: Now he's targeting the wacko vote by pandering to the Jade Helm crowd

Bowie, Rickman and the fan's disoriented grief: Why their deaths feel like "a tear in the fabric of your life"

A terrifying GOP debate: Amid all the fearmongering and lies, Donald Trump came out on top

Bill Maher compares Trump to Noam Chomsky and explains how The Donald makes it easier for a Bernie Sanders win in delightful new interview

France's #TousAvecUneKippa day takes aim at anti-semitism: "if everybody wears one, nobody is a target anymore"

The "rule of 3" is over: We've entered the devastating age of nonstop collective mourning

And then there were 3: Debate confirms that GOP race comes down to Cruz, Trump and Rubio

A total embarrassment: 3 takeaways from a GOP debate that brushed rock bottom in American politics

The stunning irrelevance of wing-nut billionaires: Why Bernie's riding high while the Koch Brothers collapse

Trevor Noah's first great moment: A brilliant "Daily Show" segment that rivals the best of John Oliver

Lindsey Graham's slick move to screw over Marco Rubio: Endorsing Jeb Bush

New Orleans faces a "constitutional crisis": Chronically underfunded public defenders are now being forced to turn away clients

Carly's sexist strategy: Fiorina mistakes election for a Best Wife Ever contest and attacks Hillary Clinton's marriage