What’s the Secret to Donald Trump’s Appeal? Nationalism
There’s clearly something more to Donald Trump’s ascendancy in Republican primary polls than his novelty. His campaign theme, all the way back to 2011, has been healing America’s wounded pride.

There’s clearly something more to Donald Trump’s ascendancy in Republican primary polls than his novelty. His campaign theme, all the way back to 2011, has been healing America’s wounded pride.

A universally denounced article published Thursday at Gawker.com has seemingly split the company in two, with editorial staff sharply criticizing and mocking CEO Nick Denton’s decision to delete the post.

2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump drew protesters and counter-protesters outside a Los Angeles hotel as he addressed a group of Hollywood conservatives Friday evening.

AP’s Director of Media Relations confirms that the news organization has decided to prevent future licensing of the photos showing guns pointed at Ted Cruz.

In 2015, Trump: The Game very much still exists– in thrift shops and eBay listings nationwide. Your authors were fortunate enough to snatch up some copies and play, and discover the buried lead about Trump: The Game that everyone reviewing it has missed: it is incredibly fun.

In a chat with Breitbart’s Big Hollywood, David Bazan discusses the “Bazan Monthly” project at length and reveals that it has spurred him to record his first full-length album since Strange Negotiations, scheduled for next February.

“I want the public to see my email,” Clinton insisted, after the public found she kept her official emails off State Department servers.

This week’s Girls is more evidence for my conspiracy theory that it’s actually written by The Manosphere–that group of bloggers united against feminism and preaching the saving power of masculinity. Not once but twice in “Female Author” do we see male characters calling out the women leads for being foolish or fake, and instead of defying their patriarchal judgment, the girls respond in submission and reward the men for showing some backbone.

Breitbart News is providing live coverage of President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Address, with live updates during the President’s speech summarizing his remarks and capturing reactions from the Breitbart News team on Twitter. 11:00 PM EST: Live updates

The centerpiece of “Triggering” has a room full of Hannah Horvath’s peers reciting various real-world critiques of Lena Dunham, sounding pretentious and shallow as they put her writing through the wringer. And yet, to her credit, Dunham balances it with even more self-effacing–depicting herself as thin-skinned, deceptive, selfish, and out of her depth.

HBO’s Girls continues to walk a dichotomous tightrope: its sympathy for bubble-dwelling white Millennial princesses and its simultaneous recognition of the people who find their entitlement repulsive.

These are, in no particular order, songs that have stuck with me through the year, that still deliver strong feelings after listening to them hundreds of times—songs that have proven some level of longevity already.

According to People, the two chart toppers performed the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture popularized in protests over the death of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown as they celebrated Jay Z’s 45th birthday in Iceland.

New York police held a press conference Sunday afternoon shedding further light on the murders of officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos on Saturday, revealing a troubled young man had driven from Maryland that morning and boasted to two men that

Most “Song of the Summer” lists give you fluffy, relaxing, free-spirited pop hits, but the discerning music fan understands that all the best songs are sad ones, and any season is perfect for the right downer. So here are a

Fellas, just face it: if you’re reading this, you’re going to be alone on Valentine’s Day. Don’t feel down; it’s good practice for when you die alone. What’s that? You’d rather not be alone? You’ve let society turn you into

An older fellow named Alan Keck attended Wednesday’s March for Life in Atlanta, equipped with a Confederate flag, a pro-secession sign, and some impressive facial hair. Judging by the Associated Press’s images from that event, this guy was a bigger

Stop everything: Judith Sheindlin aka Judge Judy aka the world’s foremost authority on all things has weighed in on the national crime trend of the “knockout game” on her website “What Would Judy Say?” In her typical no-nonsense style, JJ

Extreme winter weather like the storms across the United States’ midwest and northeastern regions bring danger, inconvenience, and a huge mess for adults who have to commute to work. However, for kids, it means no school–and plenty of time to

As I think about Christmas, I often go back to the Dad Pun “Christ’s mass.” It’s an important–if terribly hokey–reminder of the day’s significance. It answers a vital question: how did Christianity start? It didn’t emerge as an institution with
Lady Gaga’s new album ARTPOP has become a commercial flop for the history books: opening-week sales were down 75% from the debut of 2011’s Born This Way, and sales dropped 81% in the second week. How did this happen? With

Twenty-seven Republican senators voted for Wednesday’s bill passed by the upper chamber to fund the U.S. government in a continuing resolution and extend the nation’s debt limit. Eighteen voted against the measure, and one was not present. Yea votes Lamar

OBVIOUSLY SPOILERS AND NOTHING BUT After five seasons and six years of tweaking expectations, Breaking Bad‘s series finale contained only one surprise: somewhere between New Hampshire and New Mexico, Walter White was murdered and replaced by a pod person. At

Sept. 16, 2013, Rep. Confirms Liam & Miley Have Called Off Their Engagement: One Day (And Counting) Without Tweeting

So by now, you know Stephen Colbert ran an obviously sarcastic clip from Fox News’s Red Eye as an example of right-wing rage at President Obama–“the equivalent of running something from The Onion as a real news story,” host Andy

It’s from his first music album in 20 years, titled 9, and it isn’t terrible. The actor and comedian also joined Twitter specifically to plug the song, so you can take a look at that, too, if it’s you’re thing.

While viewers unfamiliar with “twerking” found Miley Cyrus’s Sunday VMA performance shocking or distasteful, viewers with professional twerking expertise–such as Freddie Ross, aka Big Freedia–found it lackluster. Big Freedia, a New Orleans hip-hop artist known for popularizing the twerk-heavy “bounce”

Mere days after Miley Cyrus’s attempt at twerking set the U.S. aghast, music producer Diplo hopes to organize a twerking event so big the whole world will notice. Tentatively titled “Butts Around the World,” the dance and reggae hitmaker (pictured, right)

I’m sure someone somewhere could consider this mildly spoilerish, so consider that disclaimed. Of all the memes and mashups I’ve seen born of Sunday’s intergenerational twerking calamity, this one wins everything. Side note: I wrote a post nitpicking the premiere

Oscar-winning Argo director Ben Affleck will play Batman in Warner Brothers’ followup to Superman flick Man of Steel, according to Variety. Predictably, hordes of nerds and fair-weather nerds who deem superhero casting decisions sacred are outraged. I have but one thing

I don’t want to talk about it. I was just trying to confirm something people were talking about on Twitter. I really don’t want to talk about it. But I already went this far. Okay, here it is. Deep breath.
Fans have heaped lavish praise on Sunday night’s Breaking Bad premiere–and with good reason. One of the greatest television dramas of all time continued to toy with audience expectations, dishing out the catnip of great moments from beloved characters and

Film director Spike Lee says he has resolved the situation caused by his retweet of a Florida family’s address thought to belong to George Zimmerman, the man since acquitted in the self-defense shooting of teen Trayvon Martin. In a Reddit

The Conversation was a little sparse yesterday, so here’s some inspiration to start the week off right. To all the parents out there, I urge you to learn a valuable lesson from this music video: always take your kids dancing
Ever since their debut single “You Know You Like It” in 2011, AlunaGeorge has been an arresting artist, standing out with bleeding-edge R&B production from George Reid and acrobatic vocals from Aluna Francis. As more songs came, they showed again

Nik Richie of TheDirty.com, the blog that broke the latest sexting allegations against Anthony Weiner, says the young woman who gave him this story claims Weiner wasn’t a satisfying lover over the phone. Richie reveals on HuffPostLive that his source

BuzzFeed Politics claimed an exclusive find as the top story on the site’s homepage Tuesday evening–the presumed identity of the young woman caught up in Anthony Weiner’s latest sexting scandal. Note: the images of the woman’s face are uncensored at

I’ve been combing through enough videos from local news teams recently to see that leaving children (or pigs) in parked cars during heat waves is enough of a problem to merit a PSA. And that is far more depressing than

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has offered asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, according to Reuters. Snowden is reportedly hiding out in Moscow as he awaits word from countries on whether they would extradite him to the United States. The U.S.

When I first heard the name “Alison Lundergan Grimes” floated as a challenger to Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, I thought of what any worthless, narcissistic Millennial would: hipster music. See, there’s a young artist who goes by the name Grimes
