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DISSENT
McConnell: Trump Wrong on Flag Burning
Breaks with GOP president-elect on free-speech issue.
POPULAR
Al Gore: 'Eliminate' Electoral College
"I have changed my view on that."
DRAINING THE SWAMP?
Trump To Pick Goldman Vet for Treasury
Steve Mnuchin, who also served as national financial chairman for the campaign.
CAMPAIGN FOREVER
Trump to Launch Victory Tour in Ohio
Beginning in Cincinnati.
INSPIRED?
ISIS Claims Ohio State Attack
Abdul Razak Artan was “soldier” of Islamic State, militants claim.
JUSTICE
Darren Sharper Gets 20 Years for Rape
Final sentence handed down in L.A.
SO MUCH BOYCOTTING
‘Hamilton’ Sets Broadway Sales Record
One week after Trump fans called for boycott.
EMBARGO
N.D. to Block Supplies from Protest Camp
Including food and building materials.
LINING POCKETS
Bahrain to Host Party at Trump Hotel
Country to have celebration at new D.C. hotel.
FLAKING OFF
Kellogg Pulls Ads from Breitbart
Site’s racist content not aligned with brand values.
Keep ReadingA look inside the first episode of the A&E docuseries ‘Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath,’ which premieres Nov. 29th.
Leah Remini: Scientology Must Be Stopped
Keep ReadingNeal Holmes, the art director of ‘Archer,’ picks his favorite drinking scenes from the FX show’s seven seasons.
Drink Like Archer (Not That You Should)
Keep ReadingThe subject of the thrilling documentary ‘I Am Bolt’ opens up about his journey to greatness, his native country, and how he plans to try his hand at professional soccer.
Usain Bolt on LGBT Rights in Jamaica
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Trump Team Backs Up Voter-Fraud Lie
Trump Team Backs Up Voter-Fraud Lie
Despite the fact there is zero evidence—none, nada, zilch—that widespread illegal voting had any sort of serious impact on the presidential election, Donald Trump went on a tweetstorm Sunday asserting that millions of people voted illegally.So to ...
On a conference call with reporters, Donald Trump’s press team used debunked and non-germane evidence to illustrate Trump’s bogus voter-fraud claim.
Carson Called Fair Housing ‘Communism’
Carson Called Fair Housing ‘Communism’
Ben Carson spent the weekend thinking about an offer to be the secretary of Housing and Urban Development in Donald Trump’s administration, and if he accepts, the retired neurosurgeon could complicate progress made on anti-housing discrimination l...
The retired neurosurgeon turned Trump adviser has little direct experience with fair-housing issues, but that didn’t stop him from once likening the discrimination laws to communism.
Zoe Kazan: We Must Fight Trump
Zoe Kazan: We Must Fight Trump
The pun is truly unintended. “She’s very thorny,” I said to Zoe Kazan about Rose, the character she is playing in Mike Bartlett’s acclaimed play, Love, Love, Love, at New York’s Laura Pels Theatre.Bartlett’s brilliant comedy-drama follows a Britis...
Kazan, winning rave reviews for her role in ‘Love, Love, Love,’ is also fighting the president-elect’s bigotry, combining acting and writing, and speaking up about her eating disorder.
Trump Might Not Destroy Planet Earth
Trump Might Not Destroy Planet Earth
Is there any hope that the Trump administration will help fight climate change—or at least not make it worse? So far, the signs are not good. As has been widely reported, one of America’s leading climate deniers, the fossil-fuel-funded non-scienti...
The North Pole is the warmest it’s ever been, and climate deniers are taking over the government. If there’s any hope, it’s going to have to come from unusual quarters.
Trump Trashes Democracy Without Mandate
Trump Trashes Democracy Without Mandate
Let’s review: We have a president-elect who:1. Will end up having received around 2.5 million fewer votes than his main opponent.2. Whose campaign benefited, almost no one now disputes, from the help provided him by Russian intelligence agencies a...
Our president-elect was not the choice of the people, prevailed with the help of a foreign power and tells us that he is above the law and will do as he pleases with his business.
Entertainment
Noah Rips Trump’s Voter-Fraud ‘Bullsh*t’
Noah Rips Trump’s Voter-Fraud ‘Bullsh*t’
After taking a week off for Thanksgiving, Trevor Noah knew our “divided” America was going to be OK when he saw the “entire country coming together as one for the traditional Black Friday celebrations.” The Daily Show host suspected that this year...
Once again, it seems Trump is just using his unhinged Twitter rants to distract from his real scandals.
Love and Lies Never Die In ‘The Affair’
Love and Lies Never Die In ‘The Affair’
The good news is that Dr. Vik Ullah (Omar Metwally) is back in The Affair, and Vik’s return—he is no longer Dr. Ullah—was heralded by him naked in bed, bucking away enthusiastically with Helen (Maura Tierney), a hot doc on the verge of orgasm.Luck...
For The Affair’s Helen and Alison, despite new relationships and traumas, all roads lead back to Noah Solloway, in jail for a crime they both committed.
A Beautiful TV Antidote to Trump
A Beautiful TV Antidote to Trump
For those struggling to cope with the fact that a former reality star who defrauded thousands of hard-working Americans, is on tape bragging about committing sexual assault, and is advised by a propagandist who caters to white nationalists will be...
Creator Charlie Brooker and star Gugu Mbatha-Raw dish on the best—and most delightful—episode of the Netflix series’ impressive third season. [Warning: Spoilers]
Baby, Carl Weathers Has a Stew Going
Baby, Carl Weathers Has a Stew Going
Shaking Carl Weathers’s hand is a humbling experience—one that will not only make your sorry mitt seem downright Trumpian by comparison, but also trigger a flashback to cinema’s most badass handshake. You know the one: Ahnuld. Apollo. You son of a...
The celebrated actor discusses his iconic roles, from Apollo Creed to ‘Predator’ to ‘Happy Gilmore,’ and his new lead role in the upcoming Dick Wolf NBC series ‘Chicago Justice.’
George Harrison: Rock’s Best-Kept Secret
George Harrison: Rock’s Best-Kept Secret
It’s been 15 years since cancer took the life of singer-songwriter George Harrison, the former lead guitarist of the Beatles who would go on to become a successful solo star, and a symbol of spirituality and higher awareness amongst mainstream roc...
Overshadowed during his life by his role in the world’s biggest band, The Quiet One was so much more than just the Beatles—he was classic rock’s best-kept secret.
Mark Hamill: Trump Cabinet ‘Despicable’
Mark Hamill: Trump Cabinet ‘Despicable’
A week after Election Day, on the first Tuesday in America’s new, uncertain reality, the man who once symbolized a rebellion’s hope against a white supremacist empire is aghast.“I’m in total denial,” says Mark Hamill, Star Wars’ iconic Luke Skywal...
The celebrated actor best known as Luke Skywalker in the ‘Star Wars’ movies opens up about his new show ‘Pop Culture Quest,’ the election, and Luke’s sexuality.
Billy Bob Thornton Gets Nasty
Billy Bob Thornton Gets Nasty
“I don’t comment on politics, because it doesn’t matter what you say, there will be a way for someone to spin it into something negative,” said Billy Bob Thornton, days after the election, at the tail end of an endless barrage of interviews for hi...
The Oscar-nominated actor-director opens up about ‘Bad Santa 2,’ the election aftermath, and why he will defend ex Angelina Jolie “to the death.”
World News
Assad’s Also Winning in Damascus
Assad’s Also Winning in Damascus
The battle for eastern Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, is not even over yet but forces backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad already have their sights on their next target; the nation’s capital, Damascus.Russia has ramped up i...
As rebel-held East Aleppo looks set to fall, the regime is simultaneously making headway in its own backyard.
Russia’s Sick Holocaust on Ice
Russia’s Sick Holocaust on Ice
On Sunday night, viewers of Russia’s state-owned Channel One saw a dance performed by an Olympic champion in figure skating Tatyana Navka and a well-known actor Andrei Burkovsky. The dynamic dance routine featured spins and jumps and other complic...
The figure-skating wife of Vladimir Putin’s press secretary just performed a dance set to the theme of Jewish genocide.
Jailed With Women of al Qaeda and ISIS
Jailed With Women of al Qaeda and ISIS
This is the last chapter in a series of articles about the author’s experiences in Turkish prisons and the people she met there, from a NASA scientist to a member of the so-called Islamic State.On day 17 of my incarceration, two lawyers and a tran...
The Kafkaesque true story of Turkey, ISIS, the CIA, and me.
Fidel and the DNA of Oppression
Fidel and the DNA of Oppression
OURENSE, Spain — I write these lines in Galicia, in the northwest of Spain, near Láncara, the tiny town where Fidel Castro's father, Angel Castro Argiz, was born on December 5, 1875. The patriarch of the Castro clan was a rural peasant scour...
Castro was an egomaniac, cunning, incredibly resilient, and able to charm a surprising array of world leaders. Why is Trump just about the only one who got him right?
Castro’s Horrific Record on Gay Rights
Castro’s Horrific Record on Gay Rights
Fidel Castro was many things: a revolutionary, a communist, a garrulous orator. Amid the fawning encomia released upon his long-overdue death at the age of 90, it should never be forgotten that he was also an oppressor, torturer, and murderer of g...
Concentration camps for gays. Political prisons where they were treated like ‘beasts.’ Listen up, liberals: Before you celebrate Castro, remember his victims.
The Nun Murders and the Transition Team
The Nun Murders and the Transition Team
PARIS — A new president had just been elected in the United States — a hard line president, who, it was said, had no patience with the vacillating, moralizing policies of his predecessor. Around the world thugs who would spit when they heard the p...
During the transition from Carter to Reagan, the Salvadoran death squads started targeting Americans. A cautionary tale about signals sent and messages received.
The Biggest Myths About Early Christians
The Biggest Myths About Early Christians
Whether you like it or not, if you live in Western Europe or North America your world is shaped by Christianity. But Christianity was not inevitable. Jesus was not the only Messiah executed by the Romans for sedition. His impact is felt and the re...
Did early Christians have Bibles? Hide in catacombs? Oh, and as far as why Peter was crucified upside down...
U.S.
Professor Allowed to Harass Gay Students
Professor Allowed to Harass Gay Students
The first time Nada Merghani discovered Professor Mike Adams, it was because she was reading his Facebook post about her. “The only thing more disgusting than a jihadist Muslim is a pro-choice Muslim,” Adams, a criminology professor at the Unive...
UNC’s Mike Adams calls trans people ‘mentally ill’ and compares same-sex marriage to ‘rape.’ And the school can’t—or won’t—stop him.
Patients: Drug Turned Us Into Gamblers
Patients: Drug Turned Us Into Gamblers
A year after her father took hostages and committed suicide by cop, Lucy kept freezing in the supermarket aisle.“I couldn’t breathe, literally, my husband would often have to come pick me up from whatever aisle of the store I was stuck in and driv...
Warning labels in Canada and Europe said Abilify could unleash destructive behaviors, but no one told Americans until thousands of them said it was too late.
Hate on the Rise in Trump’s New York
Hate on the Rise in Trump’s New York
The subway passenger felt secure enough in present day New York City that he allowed himself to doze off while seated aboard a Manhattan-bound F train during the morning rush on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.After all, crime in New York is down ...
You might dub him President Pandora were it not unfair to the woman of Greek myth to tie her to the grabber in chief.
Sexist Internet Troll Kidnaps, Shoots Ex
Sexist Internet Troll Kidnaps, Shoots Ex
“This one goes to a special someone,” Jerry Gill captioned the picture of himself holding what appeared to be a doll in a life sized noose. “Hang in there babe there’s still hope.”Gill, a 29-year-old resident of Jefferson City, Missouri, uploaded ...
Jerry Gill’s Facebook page was one misogynistic post after another. Then he put his antipathy toward women into action and allegedly kidnapped, beat, and shot his ex-girlfriend.
The Passport of the Future Is Your Face
The Passport of the Future Is Your Face
You wouldn’t guess it if you are suffering long security lines and indifferent service at America’s airports this holiday season, but all this could soon be a thing of the past. New smart technology in which your face becomes your passport could t...
Spending big bucks on infrastructure won’t end our travel misery, but a new passport may: friction-free travel from check-in to airplane.
Tech
Breeding an Assassination Generation
Breeding an Assassination Generation
Imagine your child, or grandchild, or your niece or nephew, or your friend’s child have gone off to school, the mall, or the theater. Hours later, you hear the breaking-news story every parent in the United States fears most: Shooting in Progress....
There’s a proven correlation between video games and gun violence, yet we still allow our children free access to these games, breeding an assassination generation.
4Chan Stunned You Must Register to Vote
4Chan Stunned You Must Register to Vote
Americans, and likely some troll Americans, took to social networks and websites like 4chan and Twitter to express befuddlement that they are unable to vote today, not knowing that in many states, they had to register in advance.“So apparently, yo...
On Election Day, many Americans expressed surprise that eligible voters needed to register in advance.
Proof: Reddit’s Woman-Haters Love Trump
Proof: Reddit’s Woman-Haters Love Trump
Members of Reddit’s most misogynist communities have a second home online: Donald Trump’s subreddit.TheRedPill is a subreddit dedicated to the “discussion of sexual strategy in a culture increasingly lacking a positive identity for men” and believ...
You might guess misogynist online communities and pickup artists worship the man who said ‘grab them by the pussy.’ You’d be right, a new Daily Beast analysis shows.
In Case of Hacking: Print Your Precinct
In Case of Hacking: Print Your Precinct
Some of the biggest names in tech are warning against a cyber attack that could, at least intermittently, shut down major portions of the internet in the United States on Election Day. News websites have been sounding an alarm about hacks of elect...
If you do one thing to safeguard your vote before Election Day, do this.
R.I.P. Vine, 2012-2016
R.I.P. Vine, 2012-2016
On Oct.27 at 12:30 p.m., Vine died. She was survived by her terrible father, Twitter. She was just 3 years old.The cause of death was murder by discontinuation. Twitter has taken responsibility for the killing, admitting that they will soon disabl...
Vine was good and now it’s dead.
Cyberwar on Hold ’Til President Hillary
Cyberwar on Hold ’Til President Hillary
After U.S. intelligence agencies and the Homeland Security Department publicly blamed Russia for a campaign of cyber espionage designed to interfere with the presidential election, the Obama administration promised a response “to protect [the coun...
American officials keep talking about how they’ll hit back at Russia for hacking the DNC. But any counterstrike will have to wait until after the election.
AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit
AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit
On Nov. 11, 2013, Victorville, California, sheriff’s deputies and a coroner responded to a motorcyclist’s report of human remains outside of town.They identified the partially bleached skull of a child, and later discovered the remains of the McSt...
New documents reveal the telecom giant is doing NSA-style work for law enforcement—without a warrant—and earning millions a year from taxpayers.
Arts + Culture
Zoe Kazan: We Must Fight Trump
Zoe Kazan: We Must Fight Trump
The pun is truly unintended. “She’s very thorny,” I said to Zoe Kazan about Rose, the character she is playing in Mike Bartlett’s acclaimed play, Love, Love, Love, at New York’s Laura Pels Theatre.Bartlett’s brilliant comedy-drama follows a Britis...
Kazan, winning rave reviews for her role in ‘Love, Love, Love,’ is also fighting the president-elect’s bigotry, combining acting and writing, and speaking up about her eating disorder.
The Artist Who Destroys His Art
The Artist Who Destroys His Art
In the long arc of art history, we’ve become reluctantly accustomed to the devastating loss of cultural artifacts due to war and human misdeeds, natural disaster, and just plain unfortunate accidents. But what happens when the destruction is a con...
Gerhard Richter, one of the best-known German artists of the post WWII-era, has destroyed more than 60 of his completed works that he deems unworthy.
Great Reviews of Some Sketchy Hotels
Great Reviews of Some Sketchy Hotels
Reginald Edward Morse is the protagonist and narrator of Hotels of North America, Rick Moody’s latest novel. A reviewer for RateYourLodgings.com, he is also missing in action, when the book begins. All we have of him—and it’s the bulk of the book—...
The mysterious Reginald Edward Morse is a hotel reviewer in Rick Moody’s latest novel. Here Morse rates the hotels where Moody stayed on his book tour.
James Booker Was a Crazy Piano Genius
James Booker Was a Crazy Piano Genius
In the rain forest of New Orleans music, lush with trumpets, reeds, and drummers who parade the dead to the afterlife, one instrumental tradition holds a terrain of high fertility. That is the piano. No other U.S. city has generated such a distinc...
A junkie and ex-con, the late James Booker was also the epitome of Crescent City keyboard artistry. A new documentary captures him right down to his glittering eye patch.
Will the Spanish Royals Survive Scandal?
Will the Spanish Royals Survive Scandal?
The Spanish monarchy has spent the last several years lurching from one crisis to another, but this week there was a rare burst of good news for the beleaguered royals.The magistrate responsible for handing down judgment in the corruption trial of...
There’s been a delay in the corruption trial involving the Spanish king’s sister and her husband—and some say the case could destroy the Spanish monarchy.
When FDR Turned Off the Christmas Tree
When FDR Turned Off the Christmas Tree
This year’s December 1 National Christmas Tree lighting at the White House is designed to be a cheerful family affair. The ceremony will feature, among others, James Taylor, Yolanda Adams, and Kelly Clarkson, and is sure to be a sentimental occasi...
In the wake of Pearl Harbor and the onset of World War II, President Roosevelt turned an unlit tree into a symbol of unity—and a reminder of hardship and sacrifice—for all Americans.
Will Anna Wintour Embrace Melania?
Will Anna Wintour Embrace Melania?
In the aftermath of the election, the fashion world has been relatively quiet on the issue of how it will interact with future first lady Melania Trump.It’s an unsurprising silence given the industry’s almost uniform support of Democratic candidat...
The fashion world has had a long affair with first ladies—and was proudly aligned with Michelle Obama. Melania Trump may be in for a tougher time.
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