This morning, Matt Lauer wrote a 1,300-word letter defending himself from an allegation of rape, a document that makes for a phenomenal case study in how a powerful man can turn himself into a victim. The letter follows the release of excerpts from Ronan Farrow’s upcoming book Catch and Kill, in which former NBC News…
From Tucson to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, it’s 126 miles of largely open road. There’s just one area where traffic is likely to slow down, right after the barely-there town of Why and just before you hit the park.
Presidential candidate and Sen. Bernie Sanders that he would change his campaign strategy to prioritize his health. Last week, Sanders suffered a heart attack in Las Vegas, NV. On Saturday, he returned home to Burlington, VT.
Because scamming the world with her bogus blood-testing devices wasn’t enough, Elizabeth Holmes just keeps on scamming. This time, she’s apparently scamming her lawyers, who haven’t been paid for their legal services in a huge class-action lawsuit brought against Holmes for fraud.
In an interview on Sunday, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said whistleblowers who have come forward as a part of the impeachment inquiry should have to testify in public. A second whistleblower—who is said to have direct knowledge of the events described the first whistleblower—came forward…
Rudy Giuliani’s brain must be melting as he had not one but two meltdowns in an interview with his hometown favorite network, Fox News. In an interview on Sunday morning, Giuliani defended his role in the growing impeachment scandal by holding up printouts of a rightwing site and calling them “affidavits.”
This might be Donald Trump’s most comedic excuse yet for betraying his oath of office as president of the United States.
Politico reported on Thursday night that three sources say Secretary of Energy Rick Perry will resign by the end of November. Despite the noted goofiness of Texas’ longest-serving governor, Perry has managed to avoid the spotlight for utter stupidity unlike his colleagues. But now, Perry and his trip to Ukraine in May…
Bernie Sanders is recovering after experiencing chest discomfort and having two stents placed to treat an artery blockage. According to the Sanders camp, the Vermont senator is in good spirits and “feels better than ever.” He may also be buoyed by the influx of well wishes he’s received from supporters, colleagues,…
It was easy, initially, to dismiss Andrew Yang as a joke. When he first entered the primary, the startup guy-turned-presidential candidate’s most distinguishing qualities seemed to be his almost pathological aversion to wearing ties and a belief that giving all Americans over the age of 18 a Universal Basic Income,…
The President is very good at doing dumb and obvious crimes, but he is very bad at understanding the importance of a diverse polling sample.
Red meat is bad for your heart. This has been the word from Science for many years now. And yet, like all things that were once good, and then bad, and then good again—butter, alcohol, the quality of TV programming—Science says red meat may not be so bad for you, after all. It’s still bad for the entire planet,…
Thank god someone finally told the TV news networks to stop getting their man. The presidential campaign for Joe Biden has written a letter to cable news executives demanding the they stop booking Rudy Giuliani, a man who clearly has soup for brains.
The Trump administration is determined to make President Donald Trump’s continued invocation of Hillary Clinton at his rallies into a relevant reference. Oh yes, the administration is investigating the emails of “dozens of current and former senior State Department officials” who emailed the now infamous private email…
An internal document from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is instructing agency officers to use “free online language translation services” like Google Translate to investigate refugees’ non-English social media posts. The document, published by ProPublica, declared that using these services is “the most…
A majority of House members—218 House Democrats and one independent, Justin Amash of Michigan—support an inquiry into impeaching Donald Trump, according to a report from NBC News published Wednesday.
After her championing of the Green New Deal framework helped make it the gold standard for progressive Democrats, Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is back with a fresh round of ambitious legislative proposals. On Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez unveiled “A Just Society,” a six-part bundle of bills and resolutions that…
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist, has become the new target for rightwing men, who are losing their shit over a teenager. On Fox News on Monday night, Michael Knowles, a conservative troll and Daily Wire podcast host, described Thunberg as a “mentally ill Swedish child” who is “being…
Vox Media has acquired New York Media, according to a report published in the New York Times Tuesday. Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff said that the company would not lay off editorial employees or fold any publications.
DETROIT—Hamtramck and Flint, Mich., are still very much company towns, to the point where you spend a lot of time just driving in large arching curves around the General Motors plants at the core of each of these communities. For over a week now, these places have been buzzing with apprehension. But on the picket…