April 06, 2016 Archive April 2016

Amy Schumer slams Glamour for including her in plus-size issue: "We are done with these unnecessary labels"

How Mapplethorpe won: The Jesse Helms art world culture wars are over

"Were your eyes stitched closed?": Elizabeth Warren skewers Federal Reserve regulator who played "pivotal" role in 2008 financial crisis

"The things he's saying are wacky as wacky can be": Ben Stein unloads on Donald Trump's "nonsensical" economic promises

"A guy in my MFA program once described my stories as 'cutesy’": 5 authors on the worst words critics have used to describe their work

Respect for Marcia Clark: Years after the humiliation, sexism and scrutiny during the O.J. trial — Clark finally getting well-deserved appreciation

“They’re selling to people’s fears”: Fear of the unknown fuels anti-transgender laws like North Carolina's — and their days might be numbered

How Muslim Americans are making their presence felt this election

Porn is not the enemy of good sex: Don't blame a male "virility" crisis on browser histories

Bernie wins big in Wisconsin: Sanders has now won seven of the last eight Democratic contests against Clinton

"Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet -- he is a Trojan horse": Spoiled Donald Trump throws a temper tantrum after losing Wisconsin primary

We are torturers and murderers: America's first casualty of war is the Constitution

"A remarkable feat of collaboration": The incredible story of how the Panama Papers came to be

Trump could finally be toast: After months of false alarms, his campaign might finally be imploding

“The People v. O.J. Simpson”’s stinging verdict: The trial was always about narrative, not truth

"Good luck with that": Donald Trump's new immigration proposal is impractical and repugnant

The Koch brothers don't get it: Their latest push to nominate Paul Ryan at the convention is dead in the water

F*ck Trump: Hip Hop is unifying to send a very clear message

Wildfires, flooding and extreme farming: Check out these illuminating NASA images of Earth

New life for Bernie and Cruz: Underdogs gain momentum with Wisconsin wins — but it's likely too little, too late

Allergan, Pfizer call off proposed $160B merger

Seth Meyers goes full-throated Bernie Sanders: The smartest late-night host is also the most progressive

Larry Wilmore goes there: "Why are they still calling him 'comedian Bill Cosby?' Isn't he better known now as a 'rapist'?"

Trevor Noah to Donald Trump: "You're like a guy masturbating on the subway"

Most Americans want "radical change" — it's socialism or barbarism, and Clinton would only mean more of the latter

Ann Coulter: Elect Donald Trump or "Latin American rape culture" will come to the U.S.

Fox News' Andrea Tantaros rips into Donald Trump: "Stop talking about women's looks" already and "stay on the issues"

Wisconsin Republican Congressman lets the truth slip: Suppressive voter id laws will help GOP win in November

Hillary Clinton admits it: She doesn't really believe Bernie Sanders is actually a Democrat

The truth about the Sanders surge: The optics may be terrible for Hillary after Wisconsin pummeling, but the math is still solidly on her side

Busting a cheater just got easy — and kind of scary: New Tinder-tattler app lets you spy on anyone's swipes

Sports sexists bringing their A games this week: Female athletes still "have to put up a fight for basic respect"

Bernie's giant misfire on guns: His tone-deaf position on Sandy Hook lawsuit should open Democrats' eyes

Donald Trump's "insult haiku": Scholars are having a field day parsing the poetics of Trump's "idiolect"

Don't do it, Bernie!: If Hillary wins the delegates race, a contested election is political suicide

After Bernie Sanders takes Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton "no longer guaranteed a win in her home state" of New York

Panama Papers drama: Iceland's prime minister says he's not quitting after all

San Francisco has real family values: If you want paid parental leave — and other civilized laws — it helps to live in a city

The poster child of anti-choice sleaze: David Daleiden, Planned Parenthood video hoaxster, gets raided — but to the unhinged religious right, he's a hero

Wisconsin's voter ID sham: Republican rep admits the law targets Democrats — it's time for the rest of the GOP to say it, too

Florida woman sees Governor Rick Scott in a Starbucks and offers him a piece of her mind: "You’re an asshole! You don’t care about working people"

"Insidious disease that's happening every single day": Brewery owner's must-read Facebook post against the sexism suffered by women in service industry

The revolution America desperately needs: Why Bernie must start running on public education

Watch Tavis Smiley attack "racial arsonist" Donald Trump right to Bill O'Reilly's face

Governments worldwide are executing their citizens at the highest rate since 1989, report finds

It was a blowout: Bernie Sanders won a whopping 99 percent of counties in the Wisconsin primary

LAPD launches felony probe into Charlie Sheen's alleged $20K hit on ex-fiancee Scottine Ross, report says

"Ted Cruz has no business being in the Bronx": Latino protesters interrupt Cruz to call him "an insult to the whole community”

Donald Trump's flea-sharing bed dog: Roger Stone, riot organizer and unapologetic racist, is the Trump campaign's best friend

"He has a big and very warm heart": Melania is working overtime to change women's perceptions of Donald Trump

5 disturbing facts the food industry doesn't want you to know

This is even more dangerous than Trump: Why the Islamophobia driving his campaign is only going to get worse