Last year on SNL, the insanely versatile Kate McKinnon played Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in the first of Melissa McCarthy's sketches as former press secretary Sean Spicer. When asked a question about proficiency in students, she freezes up and says: "I don't know ...read more

The Millennials cannot practice what they are not taught, and over the last twenty years, middle school and high school civics classes have fallen at disturbing rates...  To continue reading this article, please go here. You'll get unrestricted access to all our member's content, ...read more

The Banter Long Read: Today's elite are little more than a cancer, rewriting our society's genetic code, changing us into something ugly and nonviable. And just like a cancer, they don't understand that when the body dies, they go with it....  To continue reading this article, ...read more

The Banter Long Read: It's been almost a year since I stopped speaking to my Trump-voting in-laws and absence has not made the heart grow fonder. I loathe them more now than I did the day they proudly announced they had voted for a monster.... To continue reading this MEMBERS ...read more

While pretty much every Republican currently in office is awful, there are seven that stand out from the rest of the crowd. They exemplify everything that's wrong with the modern right wing and deserve a round of applause for their extraordinary effort to destroy everything good ...read more

Autism is confusing, hard to explain, and a bit scary, especially if you're a kid seeing it for the first time. The solution? Watch Alex Amelines' Amazing Things Happen. It's four minutes and fifteen seconds of pure brilliance that explains the basics of autism in a simple and ...read more

If you still subscribe to the school of thought that "both parties are the same," first, I invite you to take a long walk off a short pier. Second, please read the following summary of how Republicans govern when they have all the power and how they use that power to devastate ...read more

It is plain to many observers that Donald Trump has placed a number of people in cabinet positions who are openly hostile to the departments they now head. That's what Trump's Rasputin, Steve Bannon, was talking about when he referred to the "deconstruction of the administrative ...read more

Out of all of Trump's cabinet, one department head sets the gold standard for inexperience and incompetence -- Betsy DeVos. The billionaire head of the Education Department has absolutely no experience with public schools on any level, but is now the architect of federal ...read more

This article was originally published on Banter M, our digital magazine for members.  Ok, the headline for this article is somewhat misleading. I don't support Betsy Devos's philosophy on eduction, or her ludicrous (and virtually non-existent) views on public schooling in ...read more

If you don't work in television, you may not be aware of the name Sinclair or what it means within the business. If you do work in television, the second I mention Sinclair there's a pretty good chance your eyes involuntarily roll toward your forehead and you give a couple of ...read more

In this issue of Banter M:  Everything is Political Now - Chez Pazienza writes about the the infuriating experience of going to a concert and realizing that the performer was partially to blame for the election of Donald Trump. Is having a good time now a thing of the past in ...read more

Little Timmy sits down at his desk. Today he is learning science and he opens his textbook, the King James Bible, as the teacher begins to read, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...." Little Timmy goes home that day with the knowledge that the Earth is only ...read more

If you haven't figured it out by now, this is what every single day of the Trump administration is going to be like, however long it lasts. It's going to be a relentless 24/7 gangbang of incompetence, corruption and scandal, with trespasses large and surreal oddities small coming ...read more

Donald Trump's Cabinet picks are an interesting lot. They range from people openly hostile to the agencies they are being asked to run (Andrew Puzder and Scott Pruitt), to those who have no background or expertise in the job they are being asked to do (Ben Carson ). But out of ...read more

On Wednesday morning, Kellyanne Conway appeared on Fox News and accused Democratic senators of "reprehensible" behavior because they had the audacity to ask Betsy DeVos questions during her confirmation hearing. DeVos, Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Education, went before ...read more

President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet is turning out to be as terrible as we all feared, and his pick for secretary of education has solidified the insanity even further. Earlier this week we learned that Trump has chosen Betsy DeVos for the position, causing panic amongst ...read more