March 01, 2016 Archive March 2016

Trump security violently assaults credentialed press photographer during Virginia rally

Chuck D fires back at #OscarsSoWhite's "Fight the Power": It's "a call to making change eventually not just applauding the thought"

The Oscars' awkward & insincere masochism: Why the #OscarsSoWhite ceremony felt like such a disappointment

Donald Trump's latest Twitter gaffe: He approvingly attributes quotation from far-left labor union leader to Gandhi

Sam Smith's LGBT Oscar gaffe: Here's how a Very Special Acceptance Speech goes off the rails

Oscars' biggest upset: Why Stallone’s surprising loss was the shock the Academy needed

Rubio and Cruz are the real monsters: Liberals should be rooting for Trump — and he'll be easier to beat come November

"I hate seeing what it represents": Forgetful Donald Trump disavowed David Duke in 1991

White supremacists yelling "Heil Hitler," waving Confederate flag wallet attack Latino teens at LA park: local media

“Dictator of the Lincoln belt”: Meet the black political operative who orchestrated one of the great upsets in presidential election history

#JusticeForFlint's radical love: While Oscar's glamour beckoned, the real artists helped Flint be seen and heard

Sorry, David Brooks, but we can't blame Trump's ascendance on "anti-politics" -- it's class politics

Please give Samantha Bee "The Daily Show": They squandered Jon Stewart's legacy by giving the show to the wrong host

Chris Rock's Oscars didn't "fight the power": A night of crude jokes and cynical deflection is a poor way to show progress

The case against "saving" marriage

Clinton's stance against free college is one of her most absurd positions

Robert Reich: The GOP establishment has destroyed itself

Rubio's doomed attack: Laughable strategy to beat Donald Trump at his own game is DOA

Let's all laugh at the GOP's "Mitt Romney will save us" plan

No, Bernie Sanders' moment isn't over: Why his gargantuan impact can't be erased by a Super Tuesday drubbing

The GOP is the straight, white, Christian party: This is why Donald Trump is winning -- and why I left a party of intolerance and hate

Today's GOP candidates make Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush look like saints during this 1980 GOP debate about immigration

Thanks for nothing, Elizabeth Warren: How the Democratic Party's rock star missed her chance, hurt the progressive agenda

A 12-year-old is facing criminal charges for using these three emojis

Seth Meyers on Trump, Rubio and "the whitest round of snaps": "Make a dick joke on the campaign trail, you're the dick"

Stephen Colbert isn't laughing at Trump anymore: "This is the easiest question to answer in American politics"

Samantha Bee lets smug liberals have it -- and she's right: "If you didn't vote in 2010, you built" Trump and Tea Party

"I'm not saying that Donald Trump is a fascist..." -- but Trevor Noah comes pretty damn close

Debating Glenn Greenwald was like "looking the devil in the eye": Ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden details distaste for media in new book

Hillary vs. Trump should scare Democrats: Why this isn't the cake walk you're probably hoping it will be

John Oliver demolishes Trump, finally: Here's why his self-funded, business-savvy, tough-talking campaign is a lie

Donald Trump has dropped the GOP's mask: Conservatism and racism now officially the same thing

Megyn Kelly destroys Donald Trump for lying about not being able to hear questions about David Duke and white supremacists

David Brooks has lost his mind, again: Everything he doesn't understand about the GOP and Donald Trump's new "movement"

Megyn Kelly shames Mike Huckabee into admitting he "simply doesn't know" why Trump didn't disavow David Duke and the KKK

The most terrifying Trump endorsement yet suggests blackmailing Mexico with the PATRIOT Act

Poor, desperate Ben Carson: "At some point, the people have to wake up — but when is that going to happen?"

White supremacist dog-whistle blower Donald Trump insists "there's nobody that has done so much for equality as I have"

“We have to bring them to heel”: Watch a decade of Hillary Clinton's shameful hypocrisy on racism

Please mock Trump: As Gawker proved, pranking the Donald is a perfect way to knock him down

Just like Paris, without the outrage: ISIS has carried out another horrific massacre in Iraq, but the media just yawned and moved on

MSNBC has been whitewashed: Melissa Harris-Perry exits, buffoonish white pundits rule once more

Cruz's last stand: Ted Cruz thinks he's a messiah, but he's a pathetic dunce about to fall on his face

The endless shaming of Erin Andrews: When a woman is sexually victimized online, the damage endures

"The legal system in this country is not a joke — it's not a toy for rich idiots to play with": 15 times sue-happy Trump threatened lawsuits

If a Donald Trump joke lands on late-night TV, does anyone (who matters) hear it?

Requiem for a "liberal news network": How MSNBC abandoned the left precisely when the left is on the rise

"You can’t even handle your stuff at home": Ex-Bush aide predicts how Trump would bombard Hillary in general election

The secret Trump tapes: Rubio and Cruz lunge further rightward to paint Trump as an immigration fraud

Tucker Carlson's amazingly stupid tweet: Says Mitt's criticism about Trump's KKK stance was something "Obama could have written"

This is Trump's America and it's terrifying

Leo owes his Oscar to the bear: "The Revenant" told an American story the Academy couldn't help but devour

George Will unloads on "coward" Trump: Conservative icon calls him "a presidential aspirant who would flunk an eighth-grade civics exam"