On Thursday afternoon, Buzzfeed published an explosive story on how the so-called alt right rose to prominence and got their messages of white supremacy and hate into the mainstream media and, eventually, the White House. Writer Joseph Bernstein lays out in excruciating detail how Stephen Bannon—former adviser to…
During his daily briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer had an interesting exchange with Breitbart reporter Charlie Spiering about the size of Donald Trump’s planned wall along the border between the United States and Mexico.
Numerous administration officials have reported that national security aide Sebastian Gorka will leave his position at the White House. He is not likely to remain a part of the current administration.
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD—There are two things that seem to attract conservatives, young and old, to the annual CPAC event in National Harbor. The first is the daily programming, which this year included speeches from esteemed President Donald Trump, esteemed shadow President Stephen Bannon, White House Chief of Staff…
On Christmas Eve, George Ciccariello-Maher, a political theorist and professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, tweeted, “All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide.” The tweet was subsequently deleted, but not before Breitbart News picked up on it, triggering hordes of racist trolls. “The professor’s Twitter…
It seems years since the so-called Pussygate scandal, when a hot mic captured Donald Trump and then-Access Hollywood reporter Billy Bush giggling about sexual assault. Bush lost his job on NBC’s Today because of that tape, and we thought that Trump’s brag about grabbing women’s genitals might cost him the presidency.…
Donald Trump’s new campaign chairman Stephen K. Bannon was an... interesting hire. At a time when the campaign claims to be “pivoting” towards a kinder, gentler campaign style and trying to woo black and Latino voters, hiring the guy who ran Breitbart News was a bold choice. Now, some other unexpected wrinkles are…
After facing a wealth of insane criticism from the right wing media outlets, Penguin Random House, the publisher of Lena Dunham's memoir Not That Kind of Girl, has announced that they will be clarifying that the name of Dunham's alleged rapist is not real in future books so he will not to be confused with a real man…
