The Daily Show released a devastating video montage of Fox News‘ Tucker Carlson sounding an awful lot like white supremacist mass shooters. The video used writings from the manifestos of the Christchurch, New Zealand and El Paso, Texas, mass shooters’ displayed in captions alongside matching video clips of Carlson spewing …
Read More »In the Horror Story, We Always Die First
George Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead is one of the few films of its kind that not only doesn’t kill the token black character first, but makes him the protagonist. Still, after surviving the flesh-eating undead for nearly two hours, the hero dies at the end. I …
Read More »How a Small-Town Bakery in Ohio Became a Lightning Rod in the Culture Wars
Gibson’s Bakery is a small, family-owned business in Oberlin, Ohio, a college town about 35 miles outside of Cleveland. In addition to selling sundry items and household goods, it sells cookies, rolls, and glazed doughnuts. Although Ohio’s liquor laws preclude it from selling hard alcohol, Gibson’s also has a small …
Read More »They Know That America Isn't Great
The president may be a fool, but that doesn’t make him an ineffective racist. That would presuppose that it takes great talent to be good at hating people and furthering that hatred through policy. Donald Trump is quite adept at finding America’s weaknesses, a trait he shares with the Russians …
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