NRA Pundit Known for Violent Rhetoric Gets High Praise From Mike Pence
Screen shot, “The Violence of Lies” Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a profile published this weekend in the Style section of the New York Times, National Rifle Association spokesperson Dana Loesch was dubbed a “telegenic warrior.” Earlier this month, Loesch was joined on her nationally syndicated radio show by Vice President Mike…
Does Donald Trump Want to Be Dictator of the United States?
The Republican National Convention in July 2016Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It began the day he was sworn in, with his vow to end “American carnage”—a direct echo of his autocratic pronouncement when accepting the Republican nomination that “I alone can fix it.” Donald Trump has chipped away at…
It’s Been 50 Years Since MLK Jr. Declared War on Poverty. The Economy for Black Americans Still Stinks
Horace Cort/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Americans reflect on the first Martin Luther King Jr. Day of the Trump administration and prepare for the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination, it’s as good a time as any to measure our world against the one Dr. King dared us…
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…
Surprise! Trump Is That Dude Who Asks “But Where Are You Really From?”
Ron Sachs/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While the White House attempts to mitigate the intense backlash over President Donald Trump’s racist remarks referring to Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as “shithole” countries, NBC has a new report detailing a disturbing—yet wholly unsurprising—exchange that occurred between Trump and a Korean American…
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…