Historians will spend countless years examining why too many white Americans were so bent out of shape in 2016. If we look to past eras in which rage was the order of the day, what exactly instigated it? Is it the economy? Probably not this time, given how most economic ...read more
On Wednesday, Montel Willliams was set to appear on The O'Reilly Factor from the Republican National Convention in Ohio, but due to an unannounced change in topic, the TV host walked out just before the segment began. In typical O'Reilly fashion, the loudmouthed Fox News host ...read more
It is official: America is now pre-Nazi Germany. This is not hyperbole or a manifestation of Godwin's law -- there is a bonafide fascist movement in America led by a megalomaniac and advised by people who are openly advocating shooting the Democratic nominee for president, ...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
In between live blogging the Republican National Convention for New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer, Andrew Sullivan posted this sober realization on his Facebook page: Taking a walk this evening, it occurred to me, given the chaotic, careening shitshow we watched last night, ...read more
To declare in one short interview that president Obama is has done nothing to combat ISIS (he has), is responsible for the attacks on police officers (despite the numbers of assaults on police officers going down under his administration), has turned the country into a socialist ...read more
We are finally here. After a fair and open political process that allowed Republican voters across the country to nominate the candidate that best reflected their values, policies and vision – voters have spoken loud and clear. The brashness, incoherence and bigotry that Donald ...read more
In another monumental gaffe from the team supposedly organizing Donald Trump's bid to become president, Melania Trump was given Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic convention speech to regurgitate almost word for word at the Republican convention. Just watch: Here is the text ...read more
It makes perfect sense that a clown-haired reality-show diva will be officially nominated at a convention that'll likely resemble a circus. A circus with guns. The New York Times on Friday made it perfectly clear that if Donald Trump has his way, it'll be more like a circus ...read more
