Photo: Jeff Mitchell/Getty Images Bernie Sanders lost the 2016 Democratic primary because black women - the Democratic Party's most reliable voting bloc - voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton during the early Southern primaries, giving her a delegate lead he could never ...read more

Two years ago in the run-up to the 2016 election, white nationalists announced that they were going to drive black voters away from the polls: Leaders of the Oath Keepers, the National Socialist Movement, the Ku Klux Klan, and the American Freedom Party told Politico that they ...read more

A few years ago, the right tried to make its own version of Twitter and Facebook. They were tired of having to talk to all of those pesky liberals and really just wanted to be able to share racist memes with each other and talk about the good ol' days where the darkies knew ...read more

White people, particularly white men, have been sold the myth that if you work hard, you can have the American Dream. This dream is collapsing, exposing not only white fragility, but something far more frightening to Americans who overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump... To ...read more

I had never heard the name Ron DeSantis until a little over a month ago when Andrew Gillum won the Democratic nomination to run for Governor of Florida. DeSantis, Gillum's Republican opponent, decided it would be a good idea to go on national TV and say, out loud, that Florida ...read more

The "OK" Sign - A Hate Symbol? During yesterday’s hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanagh, a member of his transition team, Zina Bash, was seen behind him with her arms folded and the fingers of her right hand making up something that looked like the “OK” sign for ...read more

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is a right-wing extremist who has a disgraceful judicial record when it comes to human, civil, worker’s and women’s rights. The White House and the Republican Party has also seen enough of his body of work to know that Kavanaugh, if ...read more

55 years ago today, August 28, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his most famous speech. In this speech, he railed against the racial injustice that still pervaded America; an injustice that still persists to this day. He railed against the denial of full rights to the black ...read more

In a victory for voting rights advocates everywhere today, Georgia's Randolph County Board of Elections struck down a controversial proposal that would have shuttered seven of the county's nine polling places, after deliberating for less than a minute. "The Board followed the ...read more

A week ago, Maragret Renkl of the New York Times wrote the latest in the Times' Magical Ruralism genre in which we liberals just need to talk to jaw droppingly racist Trump voters in order to understand that they're just like us. Needless to say, as a Jew and a Latino that's ...read more

The New York Times has published yet another in its interminable series of articles explaining that Trump's supporters aren't really bad people and we just need to reach out to them: If, on the other hand, you’re a white liberal whose goal is to foster a more equitable culture, ...read more

In the months following Harvey Weinstein's downfall, many prominent men in the entertainment industry have lost their jobs for their sexual misconduct, but whatever you may say about Kevin Spacey, Jeffrey Tambor, and Chris Hardwick, all were fired due for what they did. This ...read more

In an emotional interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Roseanne Barr expressed deep regret for her racist outburst on Twitter against former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, whom she likened to an ape. “I apologize to anyone who thought, or felt offended and who thought that I ...read more

Disgraced comedian Roseanne Barr has now blamed her disgustingly racist tweet comparing former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape, on the influence of sleeping pills. Emerging a day after her show was cancelled, Barr claimed the following (we can't embed her tweets given she ...read more

Roseanne Barr has always been a lightning rod for controversy, but since the return of her landmark sitcom on ABC this spring, she has gone completely off the deep end. While the reboot drew big ratings upon its premiere, many of those who praised the show in the 90s were ...read more

Last week, the US House Intelligence Committee released approximately 3,517 Facebook ads purchased by the Russians between 2015-17, meant to influence the 2016 election, all of which are available to download. USA Today conducted a study of the ads and concluded that more than ...read more

Since the election of Donald Trump, Maxine Waters has become one of the most visible icons of the Resistance. Whether she's "shoving" TYT correspondent Michael Tracey, appearing on t-shirts with her catchphrase "reclaiming my time," or openly calling for impeachment following ...read more

I'm old enough to remember when John Kelly being hired as Trump's Chief of Staff was supposed to be a good thing. He was going to be the adult in the room. He was going to quell the chaos. He was going to rein in Trump's worst instincts. We were all so young and foolish back ...read more