April 08, 2016 Archive April 2016

A "top" smackdown from "Top Chef" Padma Lakshmi: Says Donald Trump is "insane" and "a racist buffoon"

5 craziest Charlie Sheen bombshells from National Enquirer editor's Hollywood Reporter essay

White House quick to jump to Clinton's aid in first big kerfuffle with Sanders: Hillary more qualified than any recent candidate in history

Democrats are better in bed: Apparently, this is one thing singles on the right and left can agree on

Black Lives Matter protesters heckle Bill Clinton — and his terrible response was cringeworthy: "You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter"

"Breastfeed is the best vaccine for everything!": An anti-vax mom changes her tune, and the idiotic backlash begins

James Franco's lesbian vampires: For prestige drama overload, a self-aware Lifetime spoof could be the campy antidote

The one percent always ate us alive: How human sacrifice led to our society's gross inequality

"Homeland" made me laugh: Here's what it's really like being a CIA agent in the Middle East

How a failed rebellion changed the world: The Easter Rising's strange centennial

Addiction is a learning disorder: Why the war on drugs is useless, AA undermines treatment, and addiction studies can learn a lot from autism

"When there is no middle class, there cannot be real democracy"

Evangelicals put to shame: Atheists tend to be more religiously tolerant than Christians

Bernie is crashing the American party system. That's why establishment Democrats are so afraid of him

Bernie's campaign is failing him: The Sanders revolution is being undermined by outmatched, reckless advisors

Bill Clinton needs to go away: Why his presidency has become a political liability

The GOP is just this screwed: Stephen Colbert explains the options beyond Donald Trump

Bernie Sanders to Seth Meyers: If Clinton campaign attacks, we will push back

Trevor Noah soils Ted Cruz, calls him "the plunger of the Republican party"

Death on the border: Family suing U.S. for "torturing and killing" Latino father at California-Mexico line, botching investigation

Ted Cruz's terrifying reinvention: How America's most detestable senator is repackaging himself for November

Elizabeth Warren: "Republican extremists" in the Senate are "insulting the Constitution" with their serial misbehavior

Bernie and Pope Francis team up: Sanders set to speak at the Vatican on economic and social issues

Boycotts won't save Mississippi: Hollywood helped kill Georgia's anti-LGBT bill, but this state might have nothing left to lose

Delusional David Brooks believes GOP will rally behind sane candidate after "Trump-Cruz civil war" at convention

There are way more poor Republicans and way less gay Democrats than you think

This is your brain on Trump

Ted Cruz is blowing up his own party: Donald Trump is "part of the Democratic corruption" in New York

Melissa McCarthy deserves better than this: "The Boss" is a fun character in search of a halfway decent movie

New York is "real" America: Cruz's "New York values" insult exposes the bullying streak of Republican politics

Grassroots revolt against Hillary: Occupy activists launch "Battle of New York" to fight Clinton machine, anti-Sanders bias in belly of beast

Bernie Sanders recreates viral "America" ad with a New York touch ahead of crucial primary

Give Pope Francis a break: Leading a large institution is always an exercise in compromise

For Ann Coulter, it's OK when Republicans cheat on their wives: Right-wing bigmouth's justifications for Trump's adultery shines light on the sexual double standard

Paul Krugman rips into Bernie Sanders for becoming one of his own "bros"

Trans Americans are under attack: Why North Carolina's draconian anti-discrimination repeal is just the tip of the iceberg

The sad evolution of TV's true crime explosion: From highbrow "Serial" and "The Jinx" to a "Law & Order" Menendez murders miniseries

We need to set Paul Krugman straight about Bernie: Pundit's latest Sanders hit job misses the entire point of his campaign

Obama the constitutional scholar returns to law school to deliver a Supreme Court lesson

We're still living in "Taxi Driver"’s America: Cities are cleaner, but the rage, despair and violence prevail

"He was just a condescending, nasty brutish boor": Former co-workers reveal Trump aide Corey Lewandowski's "misogynistic streak"

Republicans' secret to victory is ... vapers? Grover Norquist's niche voter theory to defeating Hillary Clinton is just blowing smoke

Nuclear winter on a planetary scale: The biggest threat to mankind virtually no one is talking about

Joyce Carol Oates defends "misunderstood" Calvin Trillin with equally bad verse

It's more crucial that a Democrat wins in November than you realize: A liberal Supreme Court could have seismic effect on American life

The mystery of Republican women backing sexist Trump: They're female misogynists who've grown to accept oppression

Elizabeth Warren's 7 most magical takedowns

With Saudi and Russian ties, Clinton machine's tentacles are far reaching, according to Panama Papers

Geraldo Rivera explodes at "antisemitic" Ted Cruz on Fox News: Do we need him to draw "a cartoon of someone with a big nose" to see him for what he is?

Fox News' Jesse Watters stalks Princeton campus to shout "ghetto" in black students' faces

Hillary's Iraq vote is disqualifying: It's not enough to have experience if the judgment is wrong

Patton Oswalt mercilessly skewers his own "Star Wars" obsession

Ann Coulter slams Pope Francis for urging acceptance of gays but not Donald Trump

Our body standards are f**ked: J-Law's "curvy," Amy Schumer is "plus size" and a Victoria's Secret angel was told she had to lose weight

Go ahead Republicans, nominate Paul Ryan: Why this brokered-convention scheme is doomed to fail spectacularly

"Suicide vest included?": Right-wing nutjobs go bonkers as "Sesame Street" unveils hijab-clad puppet, Zari