Trump Is Not the First President to Bash the Media—But He Might Be the Worst
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Despite a scheduling delay and potential ethics violations, President Donald Trump has still been promising to announce his much-anticipated “Fake News Awards”…
Black Lives Movement Pioneer Has a Story to Tell
Patrisse Kahn-CullorsAmy Harris/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For most of us, the Black Lives Matter movement began in 2015, after the death of Michael Brown Jr. at the hands of a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer. But for Patrisse Khan-Cullors, one of three black women credited with launching the hashtag…
New York Daily News Tears Into Trump’s “Shithole” Remarks
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump sparked intense outrage over his alarming, yet unsurprising remarks questioning why a proposed immigration deal included protections for immigrants of “shithole countries” such as Haiti, El Salvador, and other African nations. Media coverage of the president’s expletive on Thursday proved to be…
Carrie Brownstein Puts Her Last Bird on “Portlandia”
Maarten De Boer/Contour by Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Carrie Brownstein plays lots of characters in Portlandia, the Emmy-winning comedy series she co-created in 2010 with executive producer Jonathan Krisel and Saturday Night Live alum Fred Armisen—like Lance, her stoic biker dude; and Kath, determined to put 110 percent into every joyless…
Lindsey Graham No Longer Thinks Donald Trump Is a “Xenophobic” Bigot
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Once a fierce critic of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) appeared on national television on Monday to say he no longer believes Trump is a “race-baiting, xenophobic bigot.” The South Carolina senator, who in August condemned the president for attracting the favor of…
Klan Trump, Lioness DiFi, and Other Favorite Illustrations From 2017
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2017, we covered everything from the rise of the alt-right and Trump’s Russian connections to what doctors don’t tell you about pregnancy. Along the way, some very brainy and bold artists lent us their creativity and sweat: For instance, Pushart’s Megan Berkheiser and Mike Caldwell cut…