See also: This is what Columbus Day would look like if you included an actual Native American Happy Columbus Day! I hope you’re celebrating the holiday appropriately, by breaking into someone’s home and claiming that you discovered...

This week marked the 50-year anniversary of one of Martin Luther King’s most important and prescient speeches. But there’s a reason most people don’t know that. Martin Luther King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech was delivered to the...

Timothy Caughman was killed for being Black. He was 66. A canner, who supported himself by gathering and redeeming bottles and cans, Caughman was doing his job–sorting through recycling–when a 28-year- old army veteran, James Harris Jackson,...

Perhaps aiming to show instead of tell, a Missouri House Republican leader literally silenced the president of the Missouri NAACP — as he attempted to testify against a bill that would gut protections against workplace discrimination at a...

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was into spreading alternative facts way before it was cool, claimed that he was granted White House press credentials in a video he released on Wednesday. But the White House is denying the claim, probably...

As someone who voted for Barack Obama twice, self-identifies as a feminist and as a Bernie Bro (a label I’ve reclaimed), I’m having some mixed emotions about our, gulp, last president. Barack Obama was complex, complicated, and...

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. To be fair, I guess I should wish “Sorry it’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day” to the people who don’t believe it should be a holiday and the politicians who voted against making it one. I’m talking to you, Sen....

Donald Trump has been branded a bigot. Yet his acceptance speech suggests a radical rejection of heteronormativity and an embrace of radical queer identity politics. By opposing both Islam and heterosexism, and using the phrase LGBTQ, Trump may...

I’ve been having a great time at the RNC. I took my photo with Herman Caine, Sean Hannity, and, as of this afternoon, got to interview Info Wars host Alex Jones on the street! I must say, his skin looked great. And I now  know why: he had...

Given Melania Trump’s surprising choice to plagiarize Michelle Obama, we have high hopes that The Donald will lift some language of his own when he accepts the nomination from the Republican party tonight. Below are some works Trump would...

As we all know by now, Melania Trump paid the ultimate tribute to Michelle Obama by plagiarizing her 2008 convention speech. You’re welcome, Michelle. But what makes the theft all the more poignant is that it took place in the city of...

The original draft of the Declaration of Independence indicted the institution of slavery. Spoiler alert: it didn’t make it into the final version. On June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress appointed a committee of five men—Thomas Jefferson,...

Like many 9-year-old girls, Eva spends much of her time watching presidential debates, pondering identity politics, and criticizing Hillary Rodham Clinton through the art of impersonation. I was introduced to Eva’s political performance...

If you’re not living under a rock, you may have noticed just a slight media bias against Bernie Sanders. Although, in all seriousness, you may not have noticed it, since the biased media doesn’t tend to report on its own bias. You...

Hillary Clinton may not debate Bernie Sanders ahead of the California primary election, but Donald Trump would love to debate the Vermont Senator, as he told Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday night.  Sanders, for his part,  tweeted back, “Game on....