If John Bolton was expecting an easy interview with Stephen Colbert, he was way off base. Appearing on The Late Show on Tuesday to promote his tell-all book, The Room Where It Happened, Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor found himself fielding some fairly tough questions from the late...
On the surface, a white person saying out loud that they’re “not racist” might seem like a positive thing. But Dr Robin DiAngelo, author of the best-selling book White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, has a different take on it. “White people...
Protests against police brutality have now passed their third weekend, and show no signs of slowing. But even as more and more people lend their support in real life as well as in digital campaigns, more people are dying. On Friday, 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was shot twice in the back by Atlanta police...
Donald Trump has made it pretty clear whose side he’s on. As protests against police brutality sweep America and parts of the world, the president has spent his time reassuring officers they won’t be defunded and angrily tweeting nonsensical conspiracy theories about elderly protesters. On Monday,...
“I know our brains have all melted from the constant flagrant lawlessness and overall weirdness of this administration and nothing feels real any more and we’re all just programmed to move on to the next thing because Trump will inevitably do something bizarre the next day like throw a tantrum...
“This account will tweet what the President tweets,” Twitter account SuspendThePres posted on May 29. “Let’s see if it gets suspended for violating twitters [terms of service].” Approximately 68 hours later, SuspendThePres was suspended for violating Twitter’s rules...
A very sober Jimmy Fallon fronted the camera from his home on Monday evening for the first time since a 2000 blackface sketch resurfaced online during the Tonight Show’s week-long Memorial Day hiatus. Fallon offered an unqualified apology last week, but given he returned to screens as the U.S....
Jimmy Kimmel, one of the only late night hosts not taking the week off, got to take full advantage of the wealth of material from Memorial Day weekend in his Tuesday monologue. From the president golfing through a holiday weekend dedicated to casualties of war in the middle of a pandemic, to folks taking...
Trump was basically Obama’s reply guy throughout the 2010s, so it’s only fitting that he won’t be able to take advantage of a new Twitter feature intended to curb his own comment trolls…legally, at least. Twitter is testing an ability that lets users limit who can reply to their...
With the Democratic debates becoming increasingly brutal, Trevor Noah wants us all to start being a little nicer to one another. “I do think it would be cool if you could just watch debates where people just proposed what they’re gonna do, as opposed to trying to attack another person,”...
