Celebrities sing, strip, and go on a road trip to get you to vote
Given that it feels like it’s been going on for years, it’s almost hard to believe that the 2016 presidential race is…
Hank Green records individual videos explaining how to vote in all 50 states
While it’s hard to imagine someone having a tough time choosing between this year’s two diametrically opposed…
HBO launches a Game Of Thrones political party to distract us from reality
With the real presidential election in the United States turning into a bigger and bigger garbage fire, the idea of…
Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America
Cass Sunstein spent the better part of three decades coming to prominence as one of the United States’ foremost legal…
In the year of Trump and Sanders, Game Of Thrones stokes the fires of populism
Everyone loves a good populist struggle. Actually, let’s amend that: Everyone who has chosen to ally themselves with a…
TBS extends Full Frontal With Samantha Bee through end of year, presidential race
With the wheat now separated from the chaff (and Jeb Bush), the 2016 presidential race is narrowing its focus to a…
Jimmy Kimmel mansplains political campaigning to Hillary Clinton
Whether you’re voting Democrat, Republican, or throwing your vote away on some silly third-party candidate, you’ve…
Pop culture is Ted Cruz’s connection to humanity
Donald Trump has and will continue to dominate the political headlines for the foreseeable future. He’s the…
Triumph The Insult Comic Dog to host presidential election special for Hulu
So far, this whole presidential election thing has been a deeply thoughtful, refined, and all-around classy affair,…
Mandy Patinkin wishes Ted Cruz would stop quoting The Princess Bride
With Donald Trump now gleefully egging on his supporters when they scream, “Sieg Heil!” as security roughs up…
Will Smith might be America’s first president to get jiggy wit’ it
After a couple centuries of reasonably successful democratic elections, it seems like a pretty safe assumption that the…
NBC reaches agreement with candidates who wanted the same screen time as Trump
One of the interesting wrinkles in NBC’s decision to let noted fact-creator and presidential candidate Donald Trump…
NBC must now give every presidential candidate the 12 minutes it gave Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s hosting gig on Saturday Night Live went pretty much as expected: The show was awkward, stilted, and…
CNN to stream the Democratic debate in virtual reality, for some reason
Since there are few things enlightened white guys love posting about on Facebook more than Bernie Sanders and virtual…
South Park builds on last week’s joke to make us all look like fools
Looks like South Park’s perfecting its long game. This shouldn’t be a surprise, really. Recent seasons (especially last…
Campaign websites from the ‘90s are still around, still hideous
If you think your 4G is slow, stop for a second and think back to the ’90s, when “mobile” meant a cellphone that…
Kanye West announced his presidential campaign last night at the VMAs
In the lead up to Sunday’s show, the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards were pushing a new statuette and another opportunity…