My sincere hope is the site is not just back but returns to some of the former quality and insight that made it a an outsized-pop culture staple. Frankly the site had been in decline for years before its shuttering. I don’t mean to shit on you or any other writers who, I gather, have been working under less-than-ideal…

I like how after a bunch of embarrassing failed speaker votes, THIS is the doofus they all get behind.

It’s extremely telling when these people claim that discussion of extraordinarily racist actions from years past are somehow direct personal attacks against them.  No one tells on himself like a conservative.

Or (much easier) ALL the sane people in the country could have looked at Hillary, looked at Trump, put on their big-boy pants and made the right decision. Instead, a bunch of them threw a little tantrum, and now we have this.

There is sadly not enough time. Packing the courts means you need a majority in Congress to then pass laws that are favorable to the population enough that you maintain your majority through the next election cycle and onward, otherwise the court will just get packed going the other way when the Presidency switches…

Just so you dum dums understand the distinction between this situation and your metaphor: This was the LENDER choosing to forgive part of a loan due to their usurious practices and the court telling them that they can’t do that. It is, in fact, unnecessarily cruel.

“If Pete had done his research, he would know that there’s no such thing as a hypoallergenic dog, that at least a quarter of dogs in shelters are purebreds, and that Petfinder has listings for homeless dogs of every breed under the sun, including the one he purchased.”

peta is a terrible organization that turns off most people to the idea of animal rights and shouldn’t be calling out individuals just buying a pet. bother farming  corporations and big box pet stores that still sell animals.

Talk about your “activist judges”.  Once again, the right tells on itself with ever accusation it makes.

Everytime I hear about these evangelical assholes comparing abortion to the Holocaust, I like to bring up Dr Gisella Perl. A true hero who saved countless women and infants from torture and death by performing abortions with her bare hands in Auschwitz. She’s called a murderer by useless fanatics like these. She…

Reactions like this are absurd. Viktor Bout has been in prison since 2012. Bout’s absence did not stop Putin from invading Ukraine. For all the talk of the Kremlin not being as aggressive in Ukraine, generations has been wiped out. Entire cities have been leveled with an estimated 600 billion euros of damage done so…

No offense but you have no idea what you’re talking about. One arms dealer getting out of prison has zero affect on Ukraine. Putin, the dictator of an entire nation, has been throwing every bit of resource imaginable at Ukraine and failing. Absolutely nothing about that just changed. He has no special access to special…

I take a medication to prevent migraine that can cause cleft palate. My doctor was cool about it; she just advised me to not get pregnant. Which, since I’m 47, is already very much my plan. But cleft palate isn’t a life-threatening birth defect. It makes me wonder how severe the birth defect some pharmacist will…

Remember, if anyone criticizes you for dehumanizing trans people or immigrants, you are a victim of a vicious and relentless campaign of censorship. Threatening to imprison professors who express a viewpoint about a controversial topic is fine, though.

I am honestly just so upset about the continued attack on the NHS. I moved here from the US just before getting pregnant, and I could not believe (I mean, I could but...) how easy everything was. Just signed up for a GP and went in for my appointments, and never a single penny to pay or haggling phone call with an…

It has been the goal of the Tory Party to destroy the NHS since Thatcher’s days.

Do you have any close colleagues at The Root? Any that you trust to have a candid conversation about African-American culture? Someone you can ask open questions and receive respectful answers? I ask because I’m always surprised when people are surprised that outwardly/openly religious African Americans sometimes hold…

The comment section on Page Six are something to behold.

Also, I suspect at least some of them could vote for this thinking the Supreme Court will throw it out.