Max Scherzer, star pitcher for Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals, said yesterday he’d be visiting a chiropractor for the stiff neck that knocked him out…
NEARLY PILOT ERROR
Sam Shepard’s iconic role in “The Right Stuff” wasn’t even in the original script
Sam Shepard, who died July 27 at age 73, will be forever linked with the role that transformed him from a boundary-breaking playwright into a…
NOT SO FAST
Two big things that aren’t changing after Donald Trump’s tweets on his transgender military ban
Donald Trump’s hasty July 26 announcement on Twitter saying he would ban transgender people from the US armed forces appears to overlook important realities, including…
MAGIC CARPET RIDE
The big “Aladdin” casting reveal doesn’t get Disney off the hook on race
Working the internet like it was something Uncle Walt had sketched out at his trademark drawing table, Disney Studios unveiled its big live-action Aladdin casting…
DIY, BTW
Patton Oswalt, who knows all about struggle and pain, celebrated JK Rowling’s genius in perfect tweets
In a world of Muggles, the best thing you can do to mark the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book is find your…
SIN OF SINS
Even unicorns need a moral compass: Uber and the ultimate toxicity of sexism
Evidence grows that sexism stands as the gateway drug to the worst of corporate behavior, with Uber and its recently departed chief Travis Kalanick just…
BETTER RUN
Why did the factory cross the road? To get away from Donald Trump’s kiss of death
If you are an American worried about your local factory losing jobs, better not let Donald Trump find out. Four reasons why: No. 1 In…
OVER THE CLIFF
In taking down Bill Cosby, the internet did what a jury could not
Separated by several decades and scattered across a continent, many of the dozens and dozens of the women who accused Bill Cosby of drugging or…
ALMOST NO DEFENSE
Bill Cosby messed with the wrong daughter. Now a jury will decide if it was a crime.
Silenced after rave reviews for a witness who emerged as a star against him, Bill Cosby’s fate is now in the hands of a Pennsylvania…
ABSOLUTELY
The big takeaway from Comey’s testimony is the awesome and arbitrary power of the president
James Comey strode gallantly into Room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, taking his seat as a witness before the Senate Intelligence…
THOU SHALL NOT
The one unforgivable sin of Sean Hannity and Fox News, according to the gospel of Roger Ailes
Were he alive to see it, Roger Ailes would be appalled by what his creation Sean Hannity has wrought these days. Amid the crumbling of…
PARANOIA, IN CHIEF
Let Nixon rest in peace. Here’s the US president Trump most resembles in his spiral
Donald J. Trump is giving Richard M. Nixon a bad name. Yes, day by day, the 45th president seems to be ever more clearly emulating…
