Former Republican congressman turned TV guy Joe Scarborough will host both of MSNBC’s town halls this week, putting him in charge of moderating Donald Trump, the man he may or may not have had a late-night hotel sesh with last week.

Manny Pacquiao is a professional boxer who’s easy enough to never once consider if you don’t follow the sport, unless you happen to read the internet and have an interest in gay rights and where, when, and via whom there is a lack thereof. In that case, you may know Pacquiao from his commentary on gays, a group that by virtue of his professed identity he is not part of and thus is no kind of an expert on.

A new study finds that even though everyone HATES IT when racist people say “but I have [insert minority] friends,” that shit does kind of work.

Candie Hailey did a three-year pretrial stint at Rikers Island before facing a jury on charges of attempted murder last year. She spent more than two thirds of that time in solitary confinement, and attempted suicide eight times. When Hailey finally got her day in court, the jury found her not guilty. “I would say I’ve been through hell and back,” Hailey told the Associated Press. “My soul died but my body is alive.”

South Carolina, whose main outputs through American history have been the Civil War and smokeable cancer, is still a bad place, according to a new survey by Public Policy Polling.

From prostitution scandals we came and to prostitution scandals we shall return as disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer tries to spin whatever happened this weekend in his $1,000-night Plaza Hotel room.

Racist earthenware clay pot Donald Trump told an audience Monday he’d make a better president than sweaty Marco Rubio because Rubio “looks like he just came out of a swimming pool.”

After a New York teenager gave a panhandler $1 last week, police say the panhandler hugged him and said “God bless you,” while stealing the boy’s $500 iPhone. The priceless lesson he received is a bargain at $501.

The Texas judge who opted not to request an autopsy on Antonin Scalia says his doctor assured her the Supreme Court justice had been in poor health.

Glenwood Management, the luxury real estate developer cited (but not charged) in both Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver’s public corruption trials last year, has agreed to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit, the New York Times reports. The suit claimed that Glenwood had violated the Fair Housing Act’s requirements for people with disabilities.

On depression among leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement: “Organizing saves people’s lives...But we also don’t do a good job of saving the lives of the people who are organizing.”

According to the United Nations, as many as 50 people were killed in northern Syria on Monday when four hospitals—including a Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) facility in Maarat al-Numan—were bombed. “Such attacks are a blatant violation of international laws,” the UN said.

On Monday, Eliot Spitzer’s lawyer said that the woman who’d accused him of choking her in a room at the Plaza Hotel Saturday had retracted her allegation and apologized in an email he shared with both the New York Times and Manhattan district attorney’s office.

On Monday, Russia’s consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor confirmed the country’s first case of the Zika virus, Reuters reports. The Moscow resident began experiencing fever and rashes a few days after returning from her vacation in the Dominican Republic.

Ehud Olmert, former prime minister of Israel and subject of a portrait painted by George W. Bush, reported to Maasiyahu Prison on Monday to serve his 19-month sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice.

It’s not that it’s surprising a political ad would feature indiscriminately selected, wholly unrelated b-roll to sell a candidate to the American public. It’s that they didn’t even bother to excise the Canadian flag from the opening shot clearly featuring Vancouver’s skyline.

Louise Mensch, an English author of popular fiction and unpopular political columns, as well as, for a few years, a Conservative member of Parliament, will start a new website, called “Heat Street,” for News Corp, Buzzfeed reports.

Disclosure: From roughly 2000 through 2008, half or more of my household income came from my wife’s direct employment with Bill or Hillary Clinton. Toward the end of Bill Clinton’s presidency, she worked at the White House Domestic Policy Council; after that, she became a legislative aide working on health policy in the newly opened office of Hillary Clinton in the Senate; finally she worked for the Clinton Foundation, establishing its HIV/AIDS program in China.

The primary driver of racism in America? Black people like Beyonce, who celebrate thugs who want to divide us. White America does not have a racism problem—just ask these incensed internet commenters.

Last night, the National Geographic Channel kicked off its six-episode series Generation X, an uncommonly sharp talking-head recap show that explores various cultural events and phenomena that helped shape the generation after the Baby Boomers. The War on Drugs, specifically how it targeted crack in the ‘80s and was made tangible in the “Just Say No” campaign, was among the topics on last night’s premiere. The segment featured commentary from Senator Cory Booker, journalist Alison Stewart, and none other than Sarah Palin, who pointed out the impracticality of the campaign spearheaded by Nancy Reagan: