During a rant about immigrants last week, Tucker Carlson told his audience that accepting them into the United States would make the country "poorer and dirtier and more divided." He blamed Democrats for telling people like him to "shut up and accept this." Since then, 20 ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Dec 20, 2018
• Opinion

"Alabama's the Confederacy," Fran Liebowitz said on Real Time last year, correcting Bill Maher's assertion that it was the heartland. Its long association with slavery, racism, and pedophilic Senate candidates will take a long time to shake. Its current governor, Kay Ivey, ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

It's no secret that along with an obsessive need to feign persecution, the American right wing also has a fairly deep streak of antisemitism running through it. It's also no secret that white Republican voters are some of the most horrible people to ever be produced by this ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 9, 2018

In what has to be the most epic week for PR screw ups, Sean Spicer has managed to top two of the the worst branding disasters in living memory with a line so spectacularly ignorant and offensive that you wonder whether he is a Democratic mole working to make Trump even stupider ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 11, 2017

On Wednesday, Donald Trump ordered a weekly list to be published of "crimes" committed by undocumented immigrants. On Friday, he blocked Muslims fleeing from war and persecution while giving Christians preference from the same countries.... To continue reading this article, ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Jan 31, 2017

(Image via Instagram) Every year, my parents go to a health resort in Austria to spend a week exercising, eating healthy food and consulting with the wellness staff on how to integrate healthy practices into their lifestyle in London. Every year, I make the same joke to my dad: ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 20, 2018

I had no idea that Jews and CO2 had anything in common, so thanks to Princeton University Professor William Happer who, on CNBC today, cleared it up for me. Responding to a question from Andrew Ross Sorkin, Happer reiterated a 2009 comment that the greenhouse gas CO2 is just ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Feb 17, 2016

Glenn Beck didn't attend this year's White House Correspondents Dinner, but he's attended once before -- and it was clearly an experience he didn't relish very much because he compared it to, yes, being raped. "My wife and I left, and said, uh, should we go and take a shower ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

• By Guest Contributor
  Feb 17, 2016

In a truly astonishing piece, David Brooks manages to apologize for those who failed to report on the horrific sexual abuse scandal at Penn State by intellectualizing human responses to witnessing crime. Apparently, not reporting child rape is ok because: Even in ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Predictable, but still kind of amazing the lengths Bill Donohue and the conservative Catholic League will go to defend whatever the church does, hides, and endorses. From a Catholic League press release: On January 29, nearly 50 Catholic Democratic congressmen sent a letter to ...read more

• By Oliver Willis
  Feb 18, 2016