4 Reasons Mike Pence Is the Absolute Worst

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4 Reasons Mike Pence Is the Absolute Worst
Donald Trump is likely to name Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a former Congressman, as his running mate Friday, according to the Indianapolis Star (though Trump could still surprise us and go with Newt Gingrich or Chris Christie). A colorless politician with executive experience, Pence may offer ballast to the Trump ticket. But he clearly does not…

How ‘Egypt’s Jon Stewart’ Went From Public Enemy to TV Star
How to Become the Most Celebrated Satirist in the Middle East, a Step-by-Step Guide:Step One: Become a heart surgeon. Live to middle age. Step Two: Witness the Arab Spring first-hand. Get angry at the media’s portrayal of protesters in Tahrir Square, and at the advice of a friend, post takedowns…

Black Gun Owners Speak Out About Facing a Racist Double Standard
Cory Hughes marched in Florida after Trayvon Martin was shot, in Ferguson for Michael Brown and in Baltimore for Freddie Gray. Last Thursday, the Black Lives Matter activist stood in a park in downtown Dallas giving a speech about Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and his frustration with deaths like theirs. “I basically told [the crowd]…

ESPYs: NBA Stars Say ‘Shoot-to-Kill Mentality Has to Stop’
At Wednesday Night’s ESPY Awards, four of the NBA’s biggest stars teamed up to call for an end to gun violence.  “The racial profiling has to stop,” Dwyane Wade said at the annual awards show. “The shoot-to-kill mentality has to stop. Not seeing the value of black and brown bodies has…

In Police Violence Cases, Time Works Against Justice
I had the honor of appearing this morning on Democracy Now! with Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, on the depressing subject of the approaching anniversary of her father’s killing at the hands of an NYPD officer. Her family’s story is a cautionary tale. With the Alton Sterling and Philando Castile…

Watch Stephen Colbert Bid Farewell to Bernie Sanders
And then there were two. With Bernie Sanders officially endorsing Hillary Clinton Tuesday, only she and Donald Trump remain in the race for the presidency and, more importantly, The Late Show’s Hungry for Power Games, where Stephen Colbert bid farewell to the Vermont senator. “Bernie Sanders has fallen, and like many seniors, he can…

GOP’s ‘Emailgate’ Response Shows How It Ended Up With Trump
Republicans have spent the Obama years encouraging disdain for the government by endlessly accusing public officials and even the president himself of bad faith, incompetence and lawbreaking. After hearing repeatedly how worthless, corrupt and illegitimate the government is from the very people who work for it, a significant portion of…

Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton
Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton Tuesday, effectively ending his 14-month bid for the Democratic nomination. The move comes a month after Hillary Clinton hit the 2,383-delegate threshold needed to clinch the nomination, effectively eliminating Sanders from the race. “Let me begin by thanking the 13 million Americans who voted for me during the Democratic…

Bernie Sanders’ Quiet Triumph in the 2016 Race
On Tuesday morning, Bernie Sanders finally endorsed Hillary Clinton, giving nervous Democrats — dreading that a fractured party could fumble away the White House to Donald Trump — the “Kumbaya moment” they’d been pining for. Sanders’ endorsement of his establishment rival marks the end of his implausible, meteoric campaign for president….

10 Major Moments in Rock the Vote History
In a presidential race as baffling as this, it’s hard to imagine not voting come November. But surely many people will do just that — fewer than 54 percent of Americans turned up at the polls in 2012. Voter turnout for presidential elections was even more abysmal in the late Eighties…

Inside the Desperate Final Days of the ‘Stop Trump’ Effort
On Friday night, there was a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser in a D.C. suburb, and on Sunday, a conference call outlining a campaign strategy. With just one week until the start of the Republican National Convention, “Never Trump” Republicans are waging an all-out war to wrest the nomination from Donald Trump’s tiny grip. The…

Protestor in Iconic Black Lives Matter Photo Identified
The protestor in an already-iconic photo from Black Lives Matter’s protests in Baton Rogue has been identified. In the image, the woman – Ieshia Evans, according to The Atlantic – stands stoic in a roadway across from police officers wearing riot gear. A list of the 102 protestors arrested Saturday specifies…

There Are No ‘Vagina Voters’
Since Barack Obama’s run for president, and now with Hillary Clinton’s nomination, smug dismissals of “identity politics” have become popular in some circles. Conservative columnist Thomas Sowell laments that our “sense of American unity is being undermined by the reckless polarization of group identity politics.” At the radical Indypendent, Linda…

Texas’ Gun Culture and Politics Made Dallas Shooting Inevitable
A little over a year ago, a mentally ill Dallas-area man named James Lance Boulware, angry over losing custody of his son, bought an armored van on eBay, marketed as a “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle.” The van had gun ports under each of its blacked-out windows. Just after midnight one…

After Dallas, Law Expert on Right to Demonstrate, Open-Carry Guns
On Friday morning, the country, still reeling from the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, woke up to a lot of unanswered questions. Why, after a night of peaceful demonstrations in one of the nation’s largest, most diverse cities — so peaceful that protesters offered to buy coffee for…

After Dallas, We Don’t Need to Say ‘Blue Lives Matter’
Do we need to assert that Blue Lives Matter? In the wake of the killing of five Dallas police officers Thursday, it might seem so. President Obama called the shooting “vicious, calculated and despicable.” The New York Post proclaimed “Civil War” on its cover. In the same week when thousands…

Dallas Shooting Taught Me My Greatest Fear: Going Back
Last night, watching TV, I felt my heart sink. As I read the news crawl stating that five Dallas police officers had been killed after an anti-police-brutality protest, two distinct waves of terror washed over me. It was a sensation I hadn’t felt since the Rodney King verdict, when, as a…

Trevor Noah: ‘You Can Be Pro-Cop and Pro-Black’
Following the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah spent the opening portion of Thursday’s episode examining the issue of police brutality and the growing divide between law enforcement and citizens. “You shouldn’t have to choose between the police and the citizens they’re sworn to…

Watch President Obama’s Address on ‘Despicable’ Dallas Police Shooting
In a late-night address from Warsaw, Poland, President Obama discussed Thursday’s tragedy in Dallas in which two snipers killed five police officers and wounded several other officers and civilians. He called the shooting a “vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement,” and noted that although details on the shooters remain scarce, their motivations are undoubtedly “twisted.”  “Let’s be…

How This GOP Senator Became Gun-Control Groups’ Top Enemy
In 2013, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte was just two years into her first term when the Manchin-Toomey amendment, a bipartisan measure that would have expanded background checks for gun sales, was introduced. Ayotte was one of 46 senators, most of them fellow Republicans, who opposed it. After the vote, her…

Why the Gun-Control Lobby Is Playing Catch-Up With the NRA
On a recent evening in New York’s West Village, 160 people calling themselves GAG — Gays Against Guns — pack an auditorium at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center to celebrate a victory, and plan for the road ahead. The previous day, at the city’s Pride parade, GAG…

Sick of Police Shootings? America Asked for Them
You could begin yesterday by watching video of a black man in Louisiana killed by police as he lay on the ground. You could end it by watching another black man, this time shot by police in Minnesota, slowly bleed to death in a car as a seven-year-old girl looked on from…

Steven Soderbergh to Produce Movie on Panama Papers Leak
Steven Soderbergh has signed on to produce a movie based around the leak of the Panama Papers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Panama Papers encompass more than 11 million leaked documents from the Panamanian company Mossack Fonseca. The disclosure of the materials by an anonymous whistleblower revealed Mossack Fonseca’s extensive efforts to…

Olympian Oscar Pistorius Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Murder
Oscar Pistorius, the first amputee sprinter to compete at both the Paralympics and the Olympics, was sentenced to six years in prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp. The sentence was announced by a South African judge on Wednesday, CNN reports.  Pistorius, 29, shot and killed Steenkamp at his…

Watch Oscar Pistorius Get Sentenced for Murder
Oscar Pistorius, the first amputee sprinter to compete at both the Paralympics and the Olympics, was sentenced to six years in prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp. The sentence was announced by South African judge Thokozile Masipa on Wednesday. Related: 22 Biggest Sports Controversies of 2013 “Although a…

Pablo Escobar’s Brother Blasts ‘Narcos’ for ‘Lies,’ Seeks Profit
Roberto Escobar, brother of infamous drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, has requested that Netflix correct “mistakes, lies and discrepancies” found in the first season of crime-thriller Narcos, which explores the rise and fall of the Colombian drug lord. Roberto, the accountant in the Escobar empire, recently submitted a letter to the…

Snoop Dogg to Headline ‘Unity’ Concert After Democratic Convention
Snoop Dogg will headline a “unity party” on the final night of the Democratic National Convention hosted by the pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC, Priorities USA Action. The concert will take place at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia on July 28th, and is being hosted in conjunction with the House Majority PAC…

The Pot Law That Could Be ‘Deal-Breaker for the Drug War’
Last week California’s pot legalization initiative, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, qualified for the ballot in November, setting the stage for a vote that will have ramifications far beyond California’s borders. There are several reasons why if the AUMA passes, it will make California the heaviest domino to fall in…

WTF Happened With Hillary Clinton’s Email Non-Indictment
The FBI has, at last, wrapped up its investigation into the private email server that Hillary Clinton used while she was secretary of State. The bureau’s director, James Comey, called a press conference Tuesday to announce its findings. Here’s everything you need to know. What she Clinton accused of again? When she was the head…

‘Game of Thrones’ Real-Life D.C. Counterparts: Election 2016 Edition
As a wise woman once said: “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.” What holds true in HBO’s hit fantasy series also resonates in Washington D.C. politics, of course, where the field of contenders has narrowed from a ridiculous many…

Kendrick Lamar, Janelle Monae, President Obama Sing ‘Happy Birthday’
Malia Obama turned 18 on Monday, and her father didn’t miss the opportunity to honor her with a star-studded public rendition of “Happy Birthday.” “Because it’s the job of a father to embarrass his daughters, I’ve got one last job,” President Barack Obama informed the crowd at the White House July 4th picnic….

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