Jan Brewer, Famous for Making Up Stories About Beheadings, Endorses Trump
Melissa Cronin · 02/27/16 01:35PMMelissa Harris-Perry Is Probably Not Coming Back to MSNBC
Melissa Cronin · 02/27/16 01:20PMMasochist Will Stare at Ted Cruz's Face for Two Hours in the Name of Art
Melissa Cronin · 02/27/16 12:03PMWhat a World
Melissa Cronin · 02/27/16 10:49AMDonald Trump Is Really Racking Up the Racists
Melissa Cronin · 02/27/16 10:14AMMelissa Harris-Perry Blasts MSNBC Executives In Scathing Staff Memo
J.K. Trotter · 02/26/16 06:18PM
MSNBC host and Wake Forest professor Melissa Harris-Perry came out against her employer in a scathing staff-wide memo after the network repeatedly replaced her weeked morning show, Melissa-Harris Perry, with presidential campaign coverage—effectively leaving her without an outlet at the channel. In the memo, which was first reported by John Koblin of The New York Times and later published by a former staffer on Medium, Harris-Perry declared her refusal to host campaign coverage this weekend as a way of protesting MSNBC’s decision to leave her show hanging in limbo:
Who Cut CNN's Feed at the Donald Trump Rally Today?
Gabrielle Bluestone · 02/26/16 05:55PMHow Long Should a Story Be?
Tom Scocca · 02/26/16 05:45PM
Some articles should be short. Some articles should be long. No articles, as Vox and its SB Nation demonstrated, should be longform. Greg Howard’s postmortem of SB Nation’s “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?” debacle offers lots of insights into how a story can go wrong, but the most concise may be his reporting that a freelancer for SB Nation’s now-closed Longform section “said that per the terms of his contract, the story had to be at least 4,000 words long.”
In One Month We Will Begin Intentionally Starving Poor People
Hamilton Nolan · 02/26/16 05:35PMDow Chemicals Would Rather Pay Out $835 Million Than Face the Supreme Court Without Scalia
Gabrielle Bluestone · 02/26/16 05:25PM500 Days of Kristin, Day 398: The Book Is Kristin
Allie Jones · 02/26/16 05:15PMDonald Trump Still Has a Horrible Excuse For Not Releasing His Tax Returns
Jordan Sargent · 02/26/16 05:05PMDespite being the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump’s campaign is predicated on being non-traditional and non-presidential. So it’s perhaps no surprise that today he forcefully resisted a call to reveal any of his tax returns, which is a routine part of the election process.
Pro-Trump YouTube Stars Go On CNN To Say Marco Rubio Once Lived a "Gay Lifestyle"
Jordan Sargent · 02/26/16 04:55PMWould you look at this: Somebody said something outlandish on CNN. Today’s heroes are the so-called “Stump For Trump” duo: Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway and Rochelle “Silk” Richardson, who rose from their YouTube channel to opening for Trump at his fundraisers and today went on CNN to offer the notion that Marco Rubio lived a “gay lifestyle.”
Hamilton Nolan · 02/26/16 04:20PM
The Met Is Still Free
Sam Biddle · 02/26/16 04:13PM
The Wall Street Journal reports the end of a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Museum of Art—one of the greatest museums in the world, though still not as good as most museums in D.C.—that alleged admissions-price trickery. Now, the Met will use less misleading language about the price of entry, but the sign will still be wrong, because it costs $0.
Don't Give Up on PrEP
Rich Juzwiak · 02/26/16 03:42PM
A few people that I talked to yesterday, in the wake of the news of the first documented case of a supposed daily PrEP user who nonetheless contracted a strain of HIV with drug resistance, worried about an almost gleeful, “See, told ya so!” sentiment they were seeing in some gay men’s responses. At this point in my life, I am actively trying to avoid the unreasoned opinions of strangers, particularly when these opinions come with the smell of disregard for the community to which those who voice them belong (if not outright self-hatred). That’s to say that I didn’t really interact with any of that. But it is plausible that because PrEP is a discursive lightning rod, its detractors feel justified and some sense of happiness or pride over what many have taken to be solid evidence that PrEP is not 100 percent effective in eliminating HIV—something, by the way, that no expert I’ve ever read has ever attempted to argue. In fact, every doctor or researcher or activist or counselor that I’ve ever talked to has been extremely careful not to claim 100 percent PrEP efficacy.
Here Are All the Savage Burns From Donald Trump and Chris Christie's Roast of Marco Rubio
Gabrielle Bluestone · 02/26/16 02:50PMChris Hughes Sells The New Republic to Win McCormack
J.K. Trotter · 02/26/16 02:39PM
Multiple outlets are reporting that Chris Hughes has found a new owner for The New Republic: The Democratic fundraiser, Tin House publisher, and banking scion Win McCormack. The new owner, who is 71, told The Huffington Post that the deal would “preserv[e] the journal as an important voice in a new debate over how the basic principles of liberalism can be reworked to meet the equally demanding challenges of our era.”