December 16, 2016 Archive December 2016

White House: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte boasts about killing drug dealers are "deeply troubling"

Will Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Department of Justice drain Donald Trump’s swamp?

Mitt Romney's not secretary of state because he wouldn't apologize to Donald Trump

Not just Standing Rock: Other water sources along Dakota Access pipeline at risk

Dylann Roof found guilty of Charleston church shooting

Hey, President Donald Trump: Do you know where your bombs are falling?

BULLSH**TER OF THE DAY: Sean Spicer, for the most opaque view yet on presidential transparency

What Trump Foundation’s "self-dealing" disclosure means for a conflicted president-elect

Mexican acting maestro Gael García Bernal on playing characters who “wander around the landscape of the unconscious”

Netflix's "Barry": Barack Obama as a young modern invisible man

Breaking: The Greatest Living American Writer: "I’m willing to sell my pro-Trump services to any publication that wants them"

WATCH: Doctor says Obamacare could've been better if physicians gave more input

WATCH: CIA torture report — Donald Trump can’t “be much tougher than Obama has”

Cops of the Pacific? U.S. military’s role in Asia during the age of Donald Trump

Democracy’s essential reform: For democracy to survive, media must thrive

Trump's racism vs. Hillary's emails: The worst false equivalencies in 2016

Buy American — or else: GOP plan to kill import cost tax write-offs has retail industries alarmed

GOP's worsening Obamacare muddle: There's still no coherent strategy for replacing the ACA

Donald Trump's management style may lead to total chaos in the White House — and that could be good news

WATCH: "Social media is going to be where our patients are" — future of digital health care is bright

President Obama says the U.S. will retaliate against Vladimir Putin for Russian DNC email hack

Donald Trump continues to ignore Russia hacking news, as John Podesta slams FBI for not warning DNC about hack

Donald Trump's energy program needs a middle ground — nuclear power

Microsoft tries to reboot mobile strategy by ditching Intel for tablets

WATCH: How does the Electoral College work?

Expect tough hearings for Rex Tillerson and Jeff Sessions? Forget it — this is the new era of no rules

Donald Trump's favorite sheriff is still a birther: Joe Arpaio says 5-year investigation proves President Obama birth certificate fake

#DrainTheSwamp: Donald Trump's Cabinet of billionaires is worth more than a third of all Americans

Donald Trump's new Israel ambassador compared Jews who criticize Israel to Jews who helped the Nazis

Eric Trump holds bidding war for access to his sister Ivanka

Donald Trump's Cabinet is really white and really rich

Source: Donald Trump's alleged threats against Hamilton Electors aren't legal

WATCH: Stephen Colbert calls Vladimir Putin's personal involvement in Podesta email hack "kinda flattering"

Stephen Colbert's take on R.E.M.'s "It's the end of the world as we know it" perfectly sums up how we all felt about 2016

The Hamilton Electors don't have enough Republicans to stop Trump — but they're getting there

North Carolina's newly elected governor fights back against Republicans' power-grab, threatens lawsuit

WATCH: Kurt Eichenwald faces off with Tucker Carlson in one of the oddest interviews of 2016

Pentagon says Chinese warship seized a U.S. Navy underwater drone collecting unclassified data in South China Sea

Donald Trump's ethos: When it comes to Russia's hacking, the ends justify the means

Donald Trump delivers "thank you to the African-American community" who "didn't come out to vote"

Ban Donald Trump from Twitter: It's time for the social media empire to take a stand

Donald Trump's Uber economy: More evidence that "making America great again" is a con game