With less than two months to election day, most political reporting has focused in on the race for the White House. Understandable – we’ll be electing our 45th (and if Trump wins, possibly our last) president soon. But did you know that our current cast of political characters ...read more
Today, Penn State University is celebrating Joe Paterno Day – the first time the school is honoring the late football coach since he was fired for his role in enabling the systematic rape of children. This here isn’t going to be a hot take – this take is room temperature at ...read more
You don’t like Hillary Clinton. You think she’s corrupt. You don’t think she’s a progressive, and you see her as the face of the corporate wing of the democratic party. She’s part of the Establishment and will only preserve the status quo. You cannot, you say, vote for her in ...read more
In the spring of 2013, months after President Barack Obama dispatched Republican Mitt Romney to win a second term, the GOP decided to do some soul searching. The RNC produced an exhaustive autopsy of what went wrong and concluded that, among other things, the party had to be ...read more
As Donald Trump’s path to the republican nomination becomes clearer and the rest of our gag reflexes trigger awake, we seem to be losing sight of a simple, but important fact: Ted Cruz is also a fucking lunatic who must be stopped. Trump is a fascist, bigoted idiot who should ...read more
Throughout the 2016 presidential race, the predominant narrative surrounding the Donald Trump campaign has been this: he is a bigoted, inarticulate blowhard whose every statement is somehow more outrageous than the one that preceded it. His platform has invited comparisons to ...read more
Tonight marks the sixth GOP debate. Seven candidates will take the stage, down from approximately 52 in the previous five. The hosting Fox Business Network has promised a substantive debate that will “focus on economic, domestic and international policy issues.” That sounds ...read more