April 22, 2016 Archive April 2016

NBA says it will move 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte if North Carolina doesn't change anti-LBGT law

Ted Cruz exploits transphobia to resuscitate his dying campaign: Cruz rushes to slam ESPN for firing Curt Schilling over anti-transgender meme

A Prince for every occasion: He created his own borderless genre—and always sounded exactly like himself

Amy Schumer's missing edge: Has she outgrown her own show already?

"Male contraceptive options haven’t changed since Elvis was thin": These revolutionary alternatives to condoms are dragging male birth control into the 21st century

Prince, pop, race and America: How a difficult, pansexual genius remade our culture

Durant rallies with 34, Thunder top Mavs 131-102, lead 2-1

A Clinton/Warren ticket? VP shortlist fuels rampant speculation

Seymour Hersh spills the secrets of Bin Laden's execution: "He was a prisoner of war. It was a hit"

Once a thug, always a thug: Donald Trump will never (ever) be presidential

America's reputation around the world is tainted: Panicked foreign leaders are publicly worrying about Donald Trump

Stop clinging to the Founding Fathers: The Andrew Jackson/Hamilton/Tubman debate is really about honest history

Ted Cruz's paranoid adviser: By aligning with an Islamophobe, Cruz is embracing ludicrous right-wing conspiracy theories

Bernie's most valuable lesson: The Democratic Party does not represent the values of progressive Americans

Sexy MFers, unite: The feminist power of Prince’s sex-positive songs

Paul Krugman: Hamilton needed to remain on the $10 on his own merits, not just because Jackson was a racist

Stephen Colbert to RNC chief: "I really need to know that you're not doing body shots off an unemployed Santa"

David Brooks: The future of Cuba is exceeding bleak — but unlike Americans, at least Cubans still read poetry

Russell Simmons on Prince: "I came to love him"

Leaving immigration to Trump: Paul Ryan and the House GOP's policy agenda has a conspicuous, politically risky omission

"All of us, of course, remember 'Purple Haze'": Wolf Blitzer's excruciating Prince screwup is a valuable lesson for pundits & politicians

John Kasich is actually kinda nuts: The GOP primary's "reasonable moderate" can't admit the contradictions of his campaign

WATCH: Fox News sends Jesse Watters into Harlem to demand black people explain themselves

WATCH: Charles Krauthammer unloads on Fox News colleagues for believing NC transgender bathroom law is a real issue

UAE pledges $4B to boost Egypt's economy

"I was clearly in the wrong party": Howard Dean compares his campaign-killing scream with Trump's racism on

Bernie Sanders is right: Even U.S. State Department says Israel used disproportionate violence in Gaza

Joe Scarborough declares "flexible" Donald Trump to be like Prince: They're both "shape-shifters"

Chaos at Fox News: Roger Ailes' secret behind-the-scenes scheme puts network's leadership in doubt

Transgender teen booted from Ted Cruz rally as campaign of transphobia ramps up

Donald Trump is slightly less evil: Trump and Cruz test how far right Republicans have become on LGBT and women's rights

"The $20 bill goes ghetto": Racist responses to Harriet Tubman on the $20 are out of control

We now have proof Trump's a fraud: Confirming what we thought, new campaign manager admits Trump's been playing a "part" the whole time

Bigots boycott Target over bathrooms: Inclusive public restrooms aren't "a possible gateway for predators"

This badass lawmaker wants to regulate Viagra the way men regulate birth control

Prince’s feud with Michael Jackson: The intense rivalry leading up to “a kind of a superstar way of saying, 'f**k you'”

Classless Justin Bieber attacks Prince on Instagram hours after the iconic musician's death

Ann Coulter needs to stop: She and the rest of the clueless conservatives need to quit moaning about replacing Jackson with Tubman on $20 bill

Prince was the weirdo we needed: On race, masculinity & the indelible legacy of a musical icon

This 30-year-old refugee just wanted to be a high school basketball star, but was instead arrested for lying about his age

Patton Oswalt: If you're a Bernie supporter who's vowed to never vote for Hillary, "you're a f*cking child"

Death threats from Trump supporters: They're going after Republican delegates — and Trump's rhetoric is clearly to blame

America's most evil governor strikes again: Maine's Paul LePage vetos lifesaving Heroin overdose antidote bill

Conservatives gang up on a child: Anti-trans bullying of 5-year-old in Minnesota shows adults, not kids, are the problem

Donald Trump's "magic" thinking: His campaign's insane general election optimism about states they can't possibly win

The first clue into what caused Prince's death? The music icon reportedly overdosed on Percocet a week before he was found dead

"Defining political issue of our time": NYU grad student union overwhelmingly votes to boycott Israel over violations of Palestinian human rights

The world mourns Prince: Everything you need to know about his life, death and international tributes

Stop calling Kelly Ripa a "diva": The urge to demean women for exercising power is still going strong