Meet the Poster Boy for Obama’s New Trans Student Bathroom Guidelines
Landon Callahan is an unlikely poster boy for the Obama administration’s new federal guidelines on bathrooms in public schools. The Departments of Justice and Education cited Callahan’s struggle with gender dysmorphia in a letter, sent out to school districts on Friday, clarifying that students’ right to use the restroom that best matches…
Michael Moore on Flint Water Crisis: ‘This Was a Hate Crime’
Michael Moore appeared on Real Time With Bill Maher Friday to slam the Michigan government, especially Governor Rick Snyder, for their handling of the Flint water crisis. “This was a hate crime,” the Flint-born filmmaker said. “This was a hate crime based on the race hatred of this particular party.” “This is…
Mark Cuban Says Donald Trump Is a ‘G-ddamn Airhead’
If Mark Cuban is in Donald Trump’s corner, he has a weird way of showing his support. Last year, Cuban called Trump “probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time.” He then followed that up by praising the Donald for his business acumen and made it…
Why It’s a Big Deal Hillary Clinton Plans to Shake Up the Fed
Hillary Clinton is taking on the United States Federal Reserve System, but in a wonky, bottom’s-up way that shows her understanding of a complex and widely misunderstood organization. This is not “End the Fed” or even “audit the Fed” — she wants to rebuild it from its fundamentals at the…
‘Amy’ Director Asif Kapadia: ‘Boycott Donald Trump’
Amy director Asif Kapadia says American voters should “boycott Donald Trump” over the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s call to ban Muslims from entering the United States. “If [Trump] was president, I wouldn’t be allowed into the U.S. Nor would the new mayor of London,” said Kapadia to the The Hollywood Reporter at the Cannes Film Festival….
Trans Activist on Why Fights Over Bathrooms Are Just the Beginning
Cherno Biko was forced to grapple with the grave consequences of even the most basic decisions early on in life. “I come from Ohio, which it one of the worst states for trans rights,” says Biko, a black trans activist. As a 15-year-old, “I went into the men’s restroom and I was beat up,…
Warning From the Syrian Border: Trump Reminds Us a Bit Too Much of Assad
GAZIANTEP, TURKEY—I’ve been interviewing Jalal Nofal and Beshr al-Haj Hussein – both psychologists from Damascus who now live in this border town in southern Turkey – for about an hour, when al-Haj Hussein turns the tables on me. “We have a question for you,” he says. “How can the American…
‘Weiner’ Filmmakers on Documenting a Sex Scandal
On a February day in 2011, U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner stood before hundreds of Planned Parenthood supporters gathered in lower Manhattan to fight legislative attacks on the health-care provider’s family-planning services. “My name is Anthony Weiner, and I stand for women!” he boomed, tongue firmly in cheek. The crowd — mostly…
Donald Trump’s Biggest Policy Flip-Flops
In his 1987 book The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump wrote, “I never get too attached to one deal or one approach. … I keep a lot of balls in the air, because most deals fall out, no matter how promising they seem at first.” The same could be said of…
Johnny Depp: U.S. Presidency ‘Won’t Work’ if Trump Elected
Johnny Depp addressed the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency with comedic terror, saying the businessman’s victory would completely break the office, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Here’s the thing — if Donald Trump is elected President of the United States, in a kind of historical way it’s exciting because we will see…
‘Kimmel’ Imagines Rodman, Busey as Trump’s VP on ‘Lie Witness News’
As the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, voters are speculating who Donald Trump will choose as a running mate. Jimmy Kimmel hilariously offered numerous suggestions in a man-on-the-street-style segment of “Lie Witness News” Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The people interviewed made (relatively) solid cases for ridiculous candidates like Gary Busey, Arnold Schwarzenegger and…
What Game Theory Tells Us About Donald Trump
Donald Trump likes to brag about his negotiating skills, but for a tough negotiator, he’s awfully easy to manipulate. There are two types of people in Trumpland: those who are nice to Donald, and those who are not nice to Donald. If you flatter Trump, he’ll treat you well. If…
Arcane RNC Rule Could Be Last Resort for #NeverTrumpers
It’s been a week since Donald Trump assumed the mantle of presumptive Republican nominee. Since then, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has called for unity in the party, and has even convinced a number of prominent Republicans who’d voiced reservations about Trump to fall in line behind the party’s nominee. Still, there are some…
See Jeff Daniels Revive ‘Newsroom’ Anchor to Talk Trump, Hillary
Jeff Daniels, with help from Bloomberg’s Matt Negrin and Griffin Hammond, revived his portrayal of The Newsroom anchor Will McAvoy to unleash his thoughts about the upcoming presidential election between presumptive nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. “I think for the first time in election history, her opponent might donate to her campaign,”…
The Religious Right’s Come-to-Jesus About Trump
Very early Monday morning, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, as is his custom, delivered an insult-by-tweet — one that would have been a heresy in politics as we knew it pre-Trump. But in our Trumpian world, it was just another data point in his long march to bring down the Republican…
Jon Stewart: ‘I Would Vote for Mr. T. Over Donald Trump’
Jon Stewart released some comedic vitriol on Donald Trump during an interview with former Obama senior advisor David Axelrod, cracking, “I would vote for Mr. T over Donald Trump.” Stewart taped his episode of Axelrod’s podcast, “The Axe Files,” live at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics on May 9th. The interview…
Mexican Court Approves U.S. Request to Extradite El Chapo
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán may soon be extradited to the United States, 21 years after the first federal drug trafficking charges were filed against him. On Monday, a Mexican federal court approved an extradition request from the U.S. Department of Justice, a ruling that paves the way for the kingpin…
Everything Is Going to Be Dumb Now
Every election in my lifetime has been “the most important election” of my lifetime, and every election in that same span has also been the dumbest. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive, and once paired it is impossible not to yearn for forgetfulness. This year is no different. Grab a…
8 #NeverTrump Republicans Who Now Say #SureOKTrump
No one was more taken for a loop by Donald Trump becoming the GOP’s presumptive nominee than the Republicans who, months earlier, took the calculated risk of publicly ridiculing, criticizing and disavowing him. Tepid endorsements have begun to trickle in awkwardly from party leaders like Mitch McConnell, who suggested months ago that if Trump…
Meet the Mother of the Reporter Tragically Gunned Down on Live TV
Barbara Parker woke up at her usual time, around 7 a.m., on August 26, 2015. She went online to watch the news spots her daughter Alison, a TV reporter for WBDJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia, had filmed earlier that morning. “We used to always kid Alison. We’d say, ‘We’re not up at…
John McCain Has a Yuge Donald Trump Problem
In 2010, establishment Republican blood was everywhere. After the nation had chosen a liberal, black former college professor with a suspiciously foreign name to be president of the entire United States, conservatives were convinced mainstream Republicans were the root of the problem. They went after perceived establishment politicians with a vengeance….
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,…
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