Jeb Bush, Spiraling Out of Control, Calls Donald Trump a 'Jerk'
Melissa Cronin · 12/19/15 12:07PMFlorida Professor Hired To Teach Conspiracy Theories Fired For Being Sandy Hook 'Truther'
Melissa Cronin · 12/19/15 10:40AMAl Jazeera Censors Its Own Anti-Saudi Arabia Article for International Readers
Andy Cush · 12/18/15 06:54PM
When readers in the U.S. click on this hyperlink, they’ll be taken to an Al Jazeera America op-ed criticizing Saudi Arabia for an uptick in executions of prisoners for apparently political reasons. When international readers click it, they’ll get a 404 error. According to Al Jazeera itself, this discrepancy is by design.
Listen to the Governor of New Mexico Defend Her Hotel Pizza Party To Cops
Jordan Sargent · 12/18/15 06:40PMBernie Sanders Is Now Officially Suing the DNC
Ashley Feinberg · 12/18/15 06:01PMReview-Journal Reporters Were Forced to Investigate Judge Overseeing Lawsuit Against Their New Owner Sheldon Adelson
J.K. Trotter · 12/18/15 05:02PM500 Days of Kristin, Day 328: Kristin's 4th Favorite Organic Beauty Brand
Allie Jones · 12/18/15 04:47PMLook at Martin Shkreli's Big Pants
Andy Cush · 12/18/15 03:39PMBernie Sanders Accuses DNC of Sandbagging Him to Help Hillary's Campaign
Gabrielle Bluestone · 12/18/15 03:25PMChipotle: Our Employees Didn’t Shout “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” at Baltimore Cops
Andy Cush · 12/18/15 02:15PM
A deleted post to a private Baltimore neighborhood Facebook group details an exchange between two uniformed BPD cops and employees at a Chipotle in which the employees, on seeing the police, raised their hands and yelled “hands up, don’t shoot,” mimicking anti-police brutality protests across the country.
California Prison Is a Racist, Violent Nightmare
Hamilton Nolan · 12/18/15 01:50PMThe Worst Tweets of 2015
Gawker Staff · 12/18/15 01:32PMMartin Shkreli Resigns From His Horrible Drug Company
Jordan Sargent · 12/18/15 01:20PM
The arc of Martin Shkreli’s great saga has finally cratered: the famewhore CEO and Wu-Tang collector, who was arrested yesterday on various fraud charges, has stepped down from his position atop Turing Pharmaceuticals, the company at which he infamously hiked prices on an AIDS drug by 5,000 percent.
Poll: Everyone Hates Jeb
Ashley Feinberg · 12/18/15 01:10PMDonald Trump's Putin Admiration Is Completely Within the Political Mainstream
Alex Pareene · 12/18/15 12:55PM
Donald Trump’s most important purely political skill (that is, one not directly related to his abilities as an entertainer and performer) is his ability to intuit what the great angry mass of movement conservatives wish their gutless leaders would say, and then say it. Other Republicans dogwhistle. Trump dispenses with coded language and simply says: We should deport all the illegals. We should ban all Muslim immigration. And now, on Vladimir Putin: “He’s running his country and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country.”
Don't Settle For Speeches: Fix the Racial Wealth Gap
Hamilton Nolan · 12/18/15 10:37AMTrump On Concerns His New Fan Putin Kills Journalists: "At Least He's a Leader"
Allie Jones · 12/18/15 10:25AMIn a news conference yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Donald Trump “a bright and talented person” and “the absolute leader of the presidential race.” Trump loved this, obviously. Today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, he declared, “When people call you brilliant it’s always good. Especially when the person heads up Russia.” Trump then proceeded to ham-handedly defend his new buddy Putin against accusations that he kills journalists.
Now the FBI Is Searching For the Infamous "Affluenza" Teen and His Mom
Gabrielle Bluestone · 12/18/15 10:12AMReport: Bernie Sanders Campaign Improperly Accessed Confidential Clinton Voter Data
Ashley Feinberg · 12/18/15 02:22AM
The Democratic National Committee has accused Bernie Sanders’ campaign of illicitly accessing confidential voter information acquired by the Clinton campaign, The Washington Post reported late Thursday night. Sanders’ campaign manager, for his part, hasn’t denied the allegations outright—but he is chalking the whole thing up to a computer glitch.