Donald Trump Doesn't Know Where He Is

Brendan O'Connor · 09/13/15 02:35PM

“Had a record crowd in Boone, Iowa,” Donald Trump captioned a photo taken in Ames, Iowa, and uploaded to Facebook, with the student section at Saturday’s football game between Iowa State and Iowa Universities. Wrong on both counts!

Brendan O'Connor · 09/13/15 12:00PM

“I learned everything about love from movies. Love had a sexy soundtrack. Love was forever... I wanted that sort of big love. My favorite romantic formula was the best-friends-falling-in-love pattern, à la Chandler and Monica in ‘Friends’ or Ron and Hermione in ‘Harry Potter.’” You might guess where this is heading.

Brendan O'Connor · 09/12/15 12:00PM

“The throwaway moments of the zeitgeist feel heavier now, or somehow more full, but maybe this is just what getting older has always felt like, at any moment in time. How could you ever tell?” This is a lovely essay on time, the Internet, and penises.

Bobby Jindal Nails Trump With Brutal Self-Own, Flagrant Copyright Infringement

Ashley Feinberg · 09/11/15 04:45PM

Bobby Jindal and whatever remaining social media-literate staff he has left have spent the last 24 hours doing their best impression of a Trump smear campaign, calling the time-displaced Sopranos extra “not serious,” “a narcissist, “an egomaniac,” “a carnival act,” “a very weak and small person,” and “dangerous.” All of which are both true and perhaps some of the most honest, biting, and uninhibited criticism of Trump to come from a GOP candidate yet—from a proud anti-gay exorcist, no less.