Watch John Oliver Spotlight Ridiculous Congressional Fundraising
During the 2014 election cycle, candidates for the House and Senate raised a startling, combined $1.7 billion, which John Oliver said is “more than it costs to buy 242 million tubes of hemorrhoidal cooling gel and is somehow even more upsetting.” During Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, the host investigated the distressing…
Watch Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon Introduce Bernie Sanders at Wisconsin Rally
With Wisconsin citizens casting their votes in the Democratic primary this week, Bernie Sanders held a rally in Eau Claire Saturday where Bon Iver frontman and Wisconsin native Justin Vernon introduced the Vermont senator to the crowd of supporters. The singer’s remarks begin at the 5:30 mark of the above video. “With the…
Watch Steve Buscemi Mock John Kasich’s ‘Fargo’ Hatred on ‘Late Show’
Steve Buscemi visited The Late Show Friday, where the actor and Stephen Colbert discussed an unexpected topic: Republican presidential candidate John Kasich’s hatred toward the Coen Brothers classic Fargo. Buscemi read from the three pages of Kasich’s memoir Stand for Something that were dedicated to how Fargo was “graphic and brutal and completely unnecessary.” To…
Kimmel Imagines Donald Trump’s Prez Run as April Fools’ Joke
We regret to inform you that Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy is not, in fact, an elaborate hoax. On Thursday night, Jimmy Kimmel Live! aired a sketch in which Donald Trump “confessed” that his entire campaign has just been one long, protracted punking of all of us. The video is an April Fool’s Day prank;…
Watch Bernie Sanders Fire T-Shirt Cannon on ‘Colbert’
Following his most recent string of caucus victories, Bernie Sanders told ABC News he sees his campaign’s “path toward victory.” And the Vermont senator is taking the necessary next step toward triumph: blasting a T-shirt cannon on late-night television. Sanders made a silly-serious appearance during Thursday’s The Late Show, firing up and…
WTF Is a Contested Convention, and Can It Stop Trump?
Pundits have been talking a lot about contested conventions lately — more so, it seems, each time Donald Trump opens his mouth. But few people (including, frankly, many of those pundits) seem to understand what a contested convention really is, or what the implications could be for this election. Here’s everything you need to know. What does…
Donald Trump’s Abortion ‘Punishment’ Comments Make Perfect Sense
Donald Trump is under fire once again for taking Republican rhetoric to its logical conclusion. Asked by Chris Matthews at a town hall in Wisconsin Wednesday if his support for recriminalizing abortion means that women who have abortions should be punished, Trump responded that indeed there would need to be…
‘Stone Cold’ Still Can’t Believe Donald Trump Took a Stunner
Nine years ago, Vince McMahon and Donald Trump sorta squared off in the “Battle of the Billionaires” at WrestleMania 23, a match that featured their handpicked representatives – Bobby Lashley and Umaga, respectively – fighting to protect the most famous manes in the business. Yes, it was a “hair vs. hair”…
What It’s Like to Use a Public Bathroom While Trans
For most people, going to a public restroom is no big deal. Aside from long lines at the women’s restroom or a dirty stall in the men’s, they never have to think about it. For trans people, however, using a public bathroom is complicated, and often dangerous. A 2013 survey from…
Gene Simmons on Donald Trump: ‘He’s Good for the Political System’
Gene Simmons has been enjoying watching Donald Trump subvert the presidential race, calling it the most fascinating election he can remember and saying it was “bound to happen” in what he calls the “Age of Kardashian.” “He is the truest political animal I’ve ever seen onstage,” the Kiss vocalist-bassist tells…
Coyote Bros: How Hard-Partying College Kids Became Illegal Alien Smugglers
Stephen Sluyter was lounging on his leather couch, taking bong hits and watching the Cartoon Network, when his phone rang. “Bro, you hungry?” his best friend and roommate Max Bocanegra asked on the other end of the line. “I got some beans for you. I need you to get them…
Lewandowski Saga Gives Terrifying Glimpse Into Trump White House
For a man who built his celebrity on the catchphrase “You’re fired,” Donald Trump, it turns out, is terrible at firing people. It seems impossible to imagine a campaign for president that wouldn’t fire a campaign manager arrested for assaulting a woman. Especially if that woman was a reporter covering…
Michael Ian Black Pens Children’s Book About Donald Trump
Comedian Michael Ian Black has written an illustrated children’s book about Donald Trump that will be released July 12th via Simon and Schuster, The Wrap reports. Featuring drawings by acclaimed illustrator Marc Rosenthal, A Child’s First Book of Trump will seek to explain the business mogul-turned-Republican presidential frontrunner to the youth. Per…
Ex-Trump Employee Speaks Out on His Treatment of Women
Barbara Res worked for Donald Trump for over a decade, starting in 1980, serving as vice president, senior vice president and executive vice president of the Trump Organization. Trump often invokes his hiring of Res as proof that he’s long been a champion of women — something he’s has had to…
Meet the Man Petitioning to Get Guns at the RNC
It was hard to tell at first whether a hugely popular Change.org petition calling for Quicken Loans Arena to allow open carry of firearms at July’s Republican National Convention was serious. In the kind of language an ardent defender of the Second Amendment might use, its author laid out his case: Ohio…
Why Conservatives Are Terrified of Single Women
The title of Rebecca Traister’s new book, All the Single Ladies, is, she admits, a bit of a misnomer: It’s not just about single women, but rather “what happens when one model” — young, heterosexual marriage — “is no longer the only model” determining women’s lives, as had been the case…
Tens of Thousands Sign Petition to Allow Open Carry of Guns at RNC
Last week, one “Len Davies” of Spokane, Washington, created a Change.org petition calling for Quicken Loans Arena to allow folks to open-carry guns at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer. The arena’s policy forbidding firearms makes it a de facto “gun-free zone,” Davies writes, the kind of place the…
17 Anti-Trans Bills That Could Become Law Next
In February, the Charlotte, North Carolina, city council voted 7-4 on a bill extending protection against discrimination to gay and transgender people; among other things, the measure made it possible for individuals to use the bathroom that matches their gender. Gov. Pat McCrory immediately condemned the vote, warning it could “create major public safety…
Why Young People Are Right About Hillary Clinton
I was disappointed to hear that Rolling Stone had endorsed Hillary Clinton, but I also understood. In many ways, the endorsement by my boss and editor, Jann Wenner, read like the result of painful soul-searching, after this very magazine had a profound influence on a similar race, back in 1972. Jann…
The Republican Civil War Has Begun
“The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles,” Kevin D. Williamson wrote recently in The National Review, the stalwart voice of the right for more than 60 years. The conservative intelligentsia — the collection of free traders, tax…
Operation Iraqi Truth: New Documentary Reveals Why War Is Hell
“I had a couple before, to settle myself,” says Michael Ware, sipping a beer at an Irish pub in Manhattan. It’s just after 3 p.m. on a Friday and the bar is lined with haggard-looking figures. Ware, who spent seven years covering the war in Iraq for Time and CNN, fits…
Watch Hillary Clinton Talk Weed, UFOs, Debating Trump on ‘Kimmel’
Hillary Clinton subtly blasted Trump, joked about her email scandal, tested out some new slogans and discussed everything from marijuana to UFOs during her wide-ranging Thursday appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “We’ve learned a lot about you. And more than anything, we’ve learned that your emails are very boring,” Kimmel told…
Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic on Three Questions Politicians Should Answer
In the decades since Nirvana ended, bassist Krist Novoselic has become an outspoken voice for political reform. His latest venture is collaborating with two former Congressmen — a Democrat and a Republican — on a new campaign dubbed 3 American Questions. Its goal is to compel political candidates, from potential…
Watch Jonah Hill Blast Guns, Wisecracks in ‘War Dogs’ Trailer
Todd Phillips’ War Dogs follows two 20-something Miami Beach stoners (Jonah Hill and Miles Teller) who land a $300 million deal with the U.S. government to arm the Afghan military during the Iraq War. The plot sounds implausible, but is based on a true story documented by Guy Lawson in a…
Watch Ben Carson Do Terrible Job Defending Trump on ‘The View’
The hosts of ABC’s The View welcomed Ben Carson to the set Thursday morning and proceeded to subject themselves to the mind-numbing madness of attempting to reason with a Donald Trump supporter. Over the course of six minutes, the hosts gave Carson opportunities to deny that Trump is a racist, sexist liar. He id not take one…
Watch Caitlyn Jenner Make Nice With Hillary Clinton
Aspiring Ted Cruz surrogate Caitlyn Jenner hasn’t held back when asked about her feelings toward Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. On the premiere episode of the second season of I Am Cait, Jenner called the Democratic candidate “a lousy senator” and “a fucking liar.” Asked at the time if she would vote for Donald…
Tweets vs. War Crimes: Clinton’s Plan to Solve the Middle East
Twitter is not the world. But in this increasingly meme-ified election, it provides a venue for someone to try to set the agenda for the world. Sad! It’s safe to say that even at the best of times Hillary Clinton’s social media outreach seems like just that — a reach. Unctuousness via semi-ironic millennial speech…
‘The Simpsons’: Greatest Political Moments
Over its 27 seasons, The Simpsons has seen four presidential administrations, seven major campaigns and countless political scandals and embarrassments. Homer has hashed out some serious beef with George H.W. Bush, Lisa has crusaded against corruption in Washington and Moe the bartender has railed against “them immigrants.” Matt Groening and company have tackled…
A Motorcycle Journey into the Heart of Cuba
When President Obama arrived in Havana on Sunday for his three-day trip to Cuba — the first visit by a U.S. president in 88 years — the first thing he would have seen as his motorcade left the airport was a giant billboard that read BLOQUEO: THE LONGEST GENOCIDE IN…
WTF Happened in the Utah and Arizona Primaries, Explained
Everyone — except John Kasich — was a winner on what the networks dubbed “Western Tuesday” (but which we like to think of as “Super Tuesday: With a Vengeance”), the third of five super-ish Tuesdays on the primary calendar. Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric carried him to victory in Arizona, but worked against him…
Will the Supreme Court Slash Birth Control Access?
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court once again wades into the thicket of men’s reproductive health and sexual freedom. The case raises the issue of whether an employer can object to basic health care that men need to live their healthiest lives — health care that sometimes means the difference between…
Watch Donald Trump List His Assorted ‘Loves’ in ‘Kimmel’ Supercut
“For all the negative stuff Donald Trump puts out there, for all the insults and threats and general nastiness, he also spreads a lot of love,” Jimmy Kimmel said during Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday. To prove it, the host compiled the affection into a supercut – or a “powerful Donald Trump love…
Watch Bernie Sanders Discuss Brussels Attack on ‘Kimmel’
Bernie Sanders visited Jimmy Kimmel Live on “Western Tuesday,” the same day a terror attack killed over 30 people in Brussels, Belgium. During his interview with Kimmel, Sanders spoke about stopping ISIS as well as why Americans are more inclined to align with tough-talking candidates in the aftermath of a terror attack. “I…
Hillary Clinton for President
It’s hard not to love Bernie Sanders. He has proved to be a gifted and eloquent politician. He has articulated the raw and deep anger about the damage the big banks did to the economy and to so many people’s lives. He’s spoken clearly for those who believe the system…
How Will the Brussels Attacks Affect the Presidential Race?
As with everything else that will happen around the world in the next seven-and-a-half months, many people are wondering how Tuesday morning’s terrorist attacks in Brussels will affect the U.S. presidential election. That question probably won’t be settled anytime soon. We’ll likely still be debating the impact or non-impact months from now, just as we’re still…
Sarah Palin Preps Courtroom Reality Show
Sarah Palin is set to star in a new courtroom reality show similar to Judge Judy that could begin airing next year, People reports. The former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor inked a deal with Montana production company Warm Springs, and is set to film a pilot and shop it to networks with…
Rob Ford, Controversial Toronto Mayor, Dead at 46
Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who found himself at the center of a string of scandals that mixed politics, drugs and alcohol, has died after an 18-month battle with cancer, The Toronto Star reports. He was 46. Ford was first diagnosed with pleomorphic liposarcoma, a rare, aggressive type of cancer, in 2014…
Inside the Pro-Israel Conference That Welcomed Trump
Despite promises of walkouts and other protests from American Israel Public Affairs Committee attendees alarmed by Donald Trump’s incendiary statements and violent rhetoric, the Republican frontrunner enjoyed a full house and enthusiastic reception for his speech at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., Monday night. The positive reaction to Trump appeared…
Donald Trump Immediately Blusters About Brussels Attacks
A series of deadly explosions ripped through the Brussels airport and a subway station in the heart of the city Tuesday morning. The death toll continues to mount — it stood at 34 dead, more than 170 wounded as of this writing — and in the immediate aftermath of the bombings, little other…
All 2016 Candidates Support Legal Weed — Sort Of
Now that Marco Rubio is out of the race, for the first time in U.S. political history, every presidential candidate — of both parties — supports at least states’ rights to do as they please with regard to marijuana legalization. With more Americans than ever (58 percent) believing marijuana should be legalized, many…
Republicans Are Huge Hypocrites About Merrick Garland
At 63, Merrick Garland is one of the oldest Supreme Court nominees in modern history — no one older has been nominated since FDR was in office — and many Court and political observers were surprised President Obama had nominated an old white man, given the other folks reportedly on his…
See 2 Chainz Explain Brokered Conventions on ‘Nightly Show’
2 Chainz returned to The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore for another installment of his segment “2 Chainz Explainz.” In an effort to help the show’s host make sense of “the circus that is the Republican nomination for president,” the rapper helped define the term “brokered convention.” As the rapper explains, a…
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