March 16, 2016 Archive March 2016

David Copperfield should rejoice! Feeling the magic, Congress introduces bill recognizing the practice as "national treasure"

Here lies the secret to Trump's rise: Political science can explain the appeal of Donald Trump's bullshit

The Donald Trump nightmare is here for good: Win or lose, he's warped American democracy for years to come

Working for Donald Trump sounds awful: His butler hires a bugler to play "Hail to the Chief" when he's in a bad mood

"You're kind of a trickle-down media whore": Samantha Bee tries, fails to reason with actual Donald Trump supporters

What ever happened to the mighty Atlantic salmon?

An 8-year-old takes down the NSA in the creepily on-message thriller "Midnight Special"

“The Bachelor” is still for white people: A sour fairy tale, fed to millions, that keeps prizing whiteness above all

I'm stranded in Trumplandia: Life on the edge of America's abandoned middle class

"I think it’s terror": Comedian Josh Gondelman on how Donald Trump's rise sobered up this election year

Trump quashes Marcomentum: Rubio drops out after suffering a stinging defeat in his home state of Florida

Marco Rubio suspending campaign after resounding defeat in Florida

Twitter reacts to Marco Rubio's official relegation from "presidential contender" to "just another Florida Man about to snap"

"Smile. You just had a big night": Joe Scarborough responds to Hillary Clinton's victorious election night in the most annoying way possible

Sanders denied a rust belt comeback: Clinton sweeps Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Florida and North Carolina

Public ed's Wal-Mart-fication: These are the ruthless economics of the education reform movement

Robert Reich: Trade agreements are simply ravaging the middle class

Let's demilitarize the military: The Pentagon may pose the single greatest threat to our democracy

The Bernie Sanders underdog problem: "You may root for them, but you also know they’re probably going to lose"

The decline and fall of Rubio: How a candidate who looked promising flopped so badly

The curse of "inevitability": After Hillary Clinton's big wins, the media is already ignoring Bernie Sanders

Look at which 2016 presidential campaign has the largest gender wage disparities among staff

“I just want you to know there is nothing more we could have done”: Watch Marco Rubio end his campaign amidst protestors' cheers for Donald Trump

Seth Meyers mocks New York Times: "There's no app called Gay Twitter"

Now "The Daily Show" goes after Hillary Clinton? Thanks for nothing, Trevor Noah!

Larry Wilmore's brilliant #TamponTuesday bit: "This issue may seem trivial to people who have money or a penis or a money penis"

Airlines' brazen robbery: Fees are out of control and ticket buyers have no real choice -- what a business model

The agony & the ecstasy of Donald Trump: America is at a crossroads — and his is the path to hell

Inside the GOP's increasingly desperate bid to stop Trump

Keep protesting against Donald Trump — but do it the right way

Ben Carson's buyer's remorse? Carson confesses Donald Trump wasn't his top choice

Mike Huckabee on Hillary Clinton's "bitter, angry" victory speech: She spoke "like a person who's 'been somewhere'"

Sean Hannity savages the GOP establishment for refusing to be "introspective" and "thinking of ways to anger people even more" instead

Paper: Federal civil rights cases against officers are rare

Correcting Marco Rubio's final campaign lie: He wants you to think he ran a high-minded race — don't fall for it

On foreign policy matters, Donald Trump consults "with myself, because I have a very good brain and I've said a lot of things"

Dumb jocks: What the hell's in the Gatorade of these sports stars who support Trump?

"A step backwards for justice": Despite pressure from activists and Black Lives Matter, families of police brutality victims seeing no progress

Fox & Friends hosts go through stages of grief on air after Trump tells them he's skipping Fox News' next debate: "What's the point? Haven't we had enough?"

Black Lives Matters wins big at the ballot box: Tuesday's elections prove the movement is more than protests

Baby boomers have a Donald Trump problem: Immigration, nativism and the mythic golden age of the middle class

Donald Trump escalates war on media: Increasing assaults on the press putting reporters in a no-win situation

Obama's Supreme Court pick: 10 things you need to know about centrist judge Merrick Garland

Trump charges toward the nomination: The billionaire breaks Rubio's back, reducing his opposition to the deeply deluded Cruz and Kasich

And then there was one: Ted Cruz will, it seems, be the only person participating in Fox News' Utah debate next Monday

President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland chokes up during moving Rose Garden announcement: "This is the biggest honor of my life"

Harrison Ford doesn't belong in a museum: Indiana Jones in his 70s is exactly the hero we need

Stop "helping" Hillary: Sorry, guys, but Clinton doesn't need to smile, whisper, or have John Kasich as her running mate

Merrick Garland, the "holy sh*t" nominee: Why Obama's Supreme Court nomination is so surprising — and frustrating

General says Army at high risk in war against China, Russia

Feel the Bern, indeed: Sanders takes the low road with nasty Clinton tweet, undermining the promise of his campaign

Trump turns his back on Fox News, forces GOP debate cancellation

New York Times busted for anti-Bernie bias: The iconic, Clinton-endorsing newspaper slyly edits article to smear Sanders

America is mad as hell: If Sanders voters switch to Trump, anger is what the country has in common now

Donald Trump vowed to take care of veterans — just not the ones that work at KFC

Somehow, Donald Trump reaches a new low: Trump campaign ad features Hillary barking, Putin doing karate

Right-wingers on Twitter slam Obama for tapping Merrick Garland for Supreme Court

Leave Beyoncé alone: Feminists criticizing her pride as a mother are missing the point

Obama's gutsy "Godfather" move: Merrick Garland nomination is as big a GOP nightmare as Donald Trump

Go ahead and call Caitlyn Jenner a delusional GOP shill — but don't say she's not a woman