Ted Cruz’s Devastating Ice Bucket Challenge Video, A Close Reading

A few years ago, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge took the nation’s Facebook timelines by storm, as hundreds of thousands of individuals poured freezing water on their heads lest they be forced to donate money to charity. In August of 2014, current presidential candidate Ted Cruz was one of those challengers. And like…

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Watch Ted Cruz's Campaign Manager in Denial That Ted Cruz Will Probably Lose This Campaign

Showtime’s The Circus is absolutely the best television coverage of the 2016 Presidential Campaign, loaded with behind-the-scenes access, frank candidate interviews, and swift-footed editing with an artful filmic quality to it. (Though it’s a weekly show airing on Sundays, they’ll often incorporate important events…

John Kasich Takes Ohio; Hillary Clinton Sweeps Florida, Ohio & North Carolina

“This may be one of the most consequential campaigns of our lifetimes,” said Hillary Clinton tonight in a victory speech, after she trounced opponent Bernie Sanders in swing states Florida (65% of the votes to Sanders’s 33), Ohio (64% to 35) and North Carolina (56 to 40). Touting her experience at Obama’s side during…

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Happy #FlashbackFriday, Here's a Pastor Who Wants to Murder Gay People Introducing Ted Cruz 

Ah, November 2015. Back when Bobby Jindal was still running for president and Ted Cruz was just another weird, squinty goblin-man who said things like “abortifacient,” noted anti-gay pastor Kevin Swanson hosted Jindal, Cruz, and Mike Huckabee at the so-called National Religious Liberties Conference to chat about God…

This Election Season, Would You Rather Someone Pooped In Your Mouth or Your Eyes?

So, here’s the situation: you’re going to get poop on you. The reasons why aren’t important, not for the purposes of this hypothetical, just: there’s going to be shit—people shit—either in your mouth or your eyes. Someone’s going to put it there. Which do you choose? How come? Is there a self-evidently better choice…