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Want to Move to Canada If Trump Wins? Not So Fast
The threats to move to Canada if Donald Trump becomes president started appearing long ago, but they’ve increased in volume and intensity over the past few months. After Trump’s big wins on Super Tuesday, thousands took to Twitter in panic and outrage. Canada’s immigration website experienced delays, presumably from a surge in traffic….
Watch Colbert Say Goodbye to ‘Half-Kissed Frog Prince Ted Cruz’
Stephen Colbert doffed his powdered blue wig and eyebrows for an in memoriam edition of The Late Show’s “Hungry for Power Games,” bidding Ted Cruz and John Kasich the cattiest of farewells following Donald Trump’s big win in Indiana Tuesday. Colbert opened by remembering Kasich’s campaign highlights, such as his win in Ohio — and nothing…
Why America Can’t Quit the Drug War
In March, the commander in chief of the War on Drugs stood in front of a crowd of policymakers, advocates and recovering addicts to declare that America has been doing it wrong. Speaking at the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta – focused on an overdose epidemic now…
Trump Won by Turning Bigoted Dog Whistles Into Megaphones
After suffering a devastating loss in Indiana (the Basketball Ring state), alleged Zodiac Killer Ted Cruz dropped out of the Republican presidential race Tuesday night. And now that John Kasich, a man who shares a likeness and competency level with The Simpsons’ Gil Gunderson, has followed suit in suspending his campaign,…
Ladies and Gentlemen, the GOP Presidential Nominee, Donald Trump
Greetings, Republican friends. If you’re just tuning in, you’ve shown up right on time to meet your party’s general election candidate. He’s new to politics — this is the first time he’s run for elected office — but he threw himself into the primary with enthusiasm, familiarizing himself on all…
Ted Cruz’s Carly Fiorina Gambit Didn’t Save Him
Only two people know for sure when Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina struck their faustian bargain: Was it just last week, when they awkwardly made their announcement, or was it nearly a year ago, when a Cruz-supporting super PAC injected a Fiorina-supporting super PAC with a half million dollars? But what we…
Ted Cruz Will Die So That You May Live
Ted Cruz was always going to have lonely questions for God, regardless of how he lost. No recent candidate has more visibly wrestled with Messianic uncertainty about whether he actually was the Creator or was merely anointed by him, so any fallibility was bound to occasion at least one night of Nixon-esque…
Ted Cruz Suspends Presidential Campaign
Ted Cruz suspended his campaign for president after Donald Trump secured a huge victory in the Indiana primary Tuesday, The New York Times reports. “From the beginning, I have said that I will continue on as long as there is a viable path to victory,” Cruz told supporters in Indianapolis. “Tonight, I am sorry to…
What Should We Make of the Hillary Clinton Indictment Speculation?
Hillary Clinton has all but locked up the delegates needed to become the Democratic nominee for president — a fact many on both the right and the left are finding difficult to come to terms with. Perhaps that’s why potential disaster scenarios seem to be surfacing with increasing frequency these days. With her rival,…
‘Worse Than the Tea Party’: ‘Confederate Spring’ Ushers in Wave of Hate
In April, Mississippi passed what many believed to be the harshest law in the nation targeting the LGBT community. Signed into law on April 5th, House Bill 1523, known colloquially as a “religious liberty” bill, gives businesses the legal authority to deny their services to customers on the basis of…
Larry Wilmore Praised by Fake ‘Trump’ For Controversial White House Speech
Larry Wilmore received props from a fake Donald Trump on The Nightly Show Monday for his controversial speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Wilmore closed his roast with an appreciation of President Obama’s service as the first black president: “Yo, Barry, you did it, my nigga!” Earlier in The Nightly Show, Wilmore brushed…
10 Best Zingers from Obama’s Final White House Correspondents Dinner
If 2015 marked the “fourth quarter” of Obama’s presidency — as mentioned at last year’s White House Correspondents Association dinner — then 2016 finds him casually tacking on field goals as the clock runs out. Onstage at the annual roast of Washington and its press corps, the president was loose, funny,…
16 Young Americans Shaping the 2016 Election
This election cycle has aroused the usual grumbling and finger-wagging at young Americans. Will they vote? Will they vote correctly? When Debbie Wasserman Shultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, surveyed the political landscape in January, she said she saw “complacency” among young women. “Young voters, all they know is…
Watch Highlight Reel of Obama’s Most Embarrassing Moments
President Obama attended the final White House Correspondents’ Dinner of his presidency on Saturday night. To send him off, the press corps compiled a highlight reel of the president’s most embarrassing moments in the last eight years. The montage featured the typically cool, composed Obama tripping over both stairs and words, erroneously admitting he was Muslim, missing basketball…
‘Obama Out’: See President’s Scathing Correspondents’ Dinner Speech
Barack Obama attended his eighth and final White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night in Washington, D.C., and the president made sure to go out with a bang by delivering a biting 20-minute speech that ragged everyone from the media and Congress to presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. “Next year at this time,…
A Compendium of People Who Hate Ted Cruz’s Guts
Is Ted Cruz really “Lucifer in the flesh,” as House Speaker John Boehner declared earlier this week, or is he merely — as 38 percent voters in Florida are willing to believe — a serial killer? Based on the way his 8-year-old daughter, Caroline, recoils from his touch, we could easily be…
Michelle Obama to Appear on ‘The Voice,’ NCIS’
First Lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden will appear on NBC’s “The Voice,” but they presumably won’t be auditioning, despite songwriter Diane Warren recently giving the FLOTUS props for her singing chops. According to Variety, the pair will appear on the show to commemorate the fifth anniversary of their Joining Forces initiative,…
John Boehner: Ted Cruz Is ‘Lucifer in the Flesh,’ ‘You Can Call Me Boner’
Former Speaker of the House John Boehner took a break from his golf-course retirement to open up about the state of our nation’s politics in a forum at Stanford University Wednesday. Boehner — whose term as speaker was cut short by a House coup perpetrated by radical Republicans in his ranks…
The Line That May Have Won Hillary Clinton the Nomination
Maybe it’s too early for post-mortems. But the results the other night seemingly all but settled the Democratic primary race, which may have turned on a single moment. Earlier this year, at a union rally in Henderson, Nevada, Hillary Clinton introduced a new theme in her stump speeches. “If we broke up…
Carly Fiorina: The Anti-Woman Woman Ted Cruz Doesn’t Need
On Tuesday, Donald Trump swept all five Republican presidential primaries. The next day, Ted Cruz, who now cannot enter the Republican National Convention as a first-ballot winner without somehow impossibly winning 104 percent of the remaining primary delegates, named Carly Fiorina as his running mate. There’s an indispensable Simpsons moment where Homer’s brain says,…
How Picking Carly Fiorina as VP Could Backfire for Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz announced Wednesday afternoon that if he wins the GOP nomination, he’ll ask his former primary rival Carly Fiorina to be his running mate. “After a great deal of consideration and prayer, I have come to the conclusion that if I am nominated to be president of the United States that I…
If Donald Trump Were a Woman, He’d Have Zero Percent of the Vote
Asked about Hillary Clinton pulling off another big victory Tuesday evening, winning four out of five primary states against Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump doubled down on his previous comments that Clinton’s success is not about her experience or achievements, but rather her gender. “If Hillary Clinton were a man, I…
WTF Happened on Super Tuesday IV
It doesn’t really matter whether you pronounce it “ace-la,” “ah-sale-lah,” “ass-a-la,” “ack-a-la,” “ah-sell-ya,” “a-kel-la” or “a-seal-ia” because no one called it the “Acela primary” anyway. Super Tuesday IV, the latest in increasingly less super string of Tuesdays, was a fairly predictable installment in this series. Donald Trump swept Tuesday’s contests in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania…
Watch Cartoon Donald Trump Admit Campaign ‘Charade’ on ‘Colbert’
It’s easy to question whether Donald Trump is Punk-ing the Republican party, one controversial soundbite and hostile rally at a time. A cartoon version of the GOP candidate confirmed the theory on Tuesday’s Late Show, telling Stephen Colbert that his actions were part of one massive “long con.” “A lot of Republicans fear…
Bernie Sanders Has a Superdelegate Problem
There was a stretch of days and weeks in the not-too-distant past during which Bernie Sanders was winning primary after caucus after primary, but he still seemed unable to cut into Hillary Clinton’s lead in any meaningful way. Clinton had vaulted far ahead of the Vermont Senator with strong showings in…
What’s the Future of Bernie Sanders’ Political Revolution?
Had you closed your eyes last Sunday in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, you might have thought you were five years and a half-hour train ride away, occupying lower Manhattan for the 99 percent. Endorsing Bernie Sanders, New York City council member Jumaane Williams — a Black Lives Matter activist and former…
What Donald Trump’s Political Donations Reveal About Him
Donald Trump’s recent campaign speeches have the tenor of a scorned child, with much ranting and raving about the “rigged” nomination process. “Little Marco, his State Chairman, & their minions are working overtime-trying to rig the vote,” Trump tweeted in March. A few weeks ago, griping about losing Colorado’s delegate race,…
John Kasich Botched Getting Into Oregon Voters’ Guide
Ted Cruz and John Kasich on Sunday night released a pair of statements about their new, coordinated effort to derail Donald Trump from cobbling together the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the Republican nomination on the convention’s first ballot. Cruz will focus resources on Indiana, where polls show he…
Filmmaker Josh Fox on Being Team Bernie and Fighting Climate Change Despair
Activist-filmmaker Josh Fox isn’t resting on his laurels. Or on anything, anywhere, ever. He doesn’t seem quite capable of rest. When I arrive at his home office a stone’s throw from the Brooklyn Navy Yard — the location of New York’s Democratic debate earlier this month — it is one…
Hear Prince and the Time’s 1990 Song About Donald Trump
Among Prince’s many interesting qualities was the fact that he never used his celebrity to advance his political views — whatever those might have been. He didn’t vote, as he told PBS’s Tavis Smiley in 2008, and he refused to participate in efforts even as uncontroversial as the “We Are the World” fundraiser to…
Alabama Shakes on N. Carolina ‘Bathroom Bill’: ‘It Was Wrong’
Grammy Award-winning rock band Alabama Shakes are the latest musical act to speak out on North Carolina’s controversial HB2 law, commonly referred to as the “bathroom bill.” “I think it was wrong what the lawmakers did,” singer Brittany Howard said in a music festival podcast interview for CRN International. Speaking about the LGBT community, Howard…
President Obama Mourns Death of ‘Creative Icon’ Prince
Noted Prince fan — and president of the United States — Barack Obama paid his respects to the singer in the aftermath of his death at age 57 Thursday. The president, who just wrapped up a tense visit with leaders in Saudi Arabia and is now on his way to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s 90th…
Watch ‘Cartoon Trump’ Discuss Glitzy RNC Plans on ‘Colbert’
Cartoon Donald Trump returned to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to discuss his New York victory as well as the upcoming Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Cartoon Trump has become a regular guest on Colbert’s show this past month. The late-night host began his bit by discussing the new logo…
Joe Walsh Nixes Concert After GOP Ties Revealed
Joe Walsh will not be performing at a July 18th concert he was initially scheduled to perform in Cleveland, OH. In a statement he released on Wednesday, Walsh said the event was billed to him as a benefit for the families of veterans, but after he discovered it was part of the Republican…
Congress’ Top Legal Pot Advocate on the Future of Marijuana Policy
It’s been a lonely 20 years for Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, one of legal marijuana’s biggest champions in Congress. He’s introduced or co-sponsored more than two dozen pieces of legislation over those two decades, each one designed to chip away at the federal anti-marijuana monolith: laws that would make it legal…
Inside a Kinder, Gentler Trump’s New York Victory Party
Inside Trump Tower’s ornate lobby Tuesday night, a Megyn Kelly-anchored Fox News program is turned all the way up, and the grand escalators are turned off — both signs Trump’s learned a thing or two since he kicked off his bid for the Republican nomination in this very spot ten…
6 Years After Gulf Oil Spill, Residents Demand ‘No More Drilling’
On March 23rd, weeks before the sixth anniversary of the BP oil spill, hundreds of protesters march into the New Orleans Superdome carrying banners reading “Keep It In the Ground,” “No More Drilling” and “No New Leases.” Hurricane Katrina made the Superdome an icon of climate destruction and government ineptitude,…
Father John Misty Rails Against ‘Bulls–t’ N. Carolina ‘Bathroom Bill’
Father John Misty, the folk singer-songwriter whose real name is Josh Tillman, tells Rolling Stone that he will donate the proceeds of his April 27th show at the Fillmore Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina to Time Out Youth, a Charlotte-based LGBT support center. High-profile artists like Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Pearl Jam and…
WTF Happened in the New York Primary, Explained
In a 2016 campaign full of unpredictable twists, perhaps most surprising is that “New York values” are in line with the bulk of the nation’s. The pivotal Empire State primary — odd to write those words — has reversed the momentum of both parties’ underdogs, and given frontrunners Donald Trump and…
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