What ‘It’ Gets Right About Being a Kid in 1989
From rock fights to “Bust a Move,” the latest Stephen King adaptation gets childhood in the late ’80s just right
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Who Should Make ‘Star Wars’ Movies – Emperors or Rebels?
Right now, they’re made by committee
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Is Taylor Swift’s ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ About Pennywise the Clown?
Understanding the true, true meaning of “Look What You Made Me Do”
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Another Problem for HBO’s ‘Confederate': It’s Been Done
Creator of 2004 faux documentary “C.S.A.” is talking with his lawyer
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Bill Clinton Reverts to Boyhood, Wishes Barack Obama ‘Some Balloons’ for His Birthday
Clinton hopes Obama gets balloons for his 56th birthday, for reasons you may or may not remember
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Reminder: LA Times Called Scaramucci ‘Smooth and Noncombative’ Before His Meltdown
What a difference four days make
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Reminder: Some of You Were Calling John McCain a Murderer 3 Days Ago
People you hate can do things you love
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Reminder: Jared and Ivanka Are Useless
Liberals who hoped they might be a moderating influence are seeing that they aren’t
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Reminder: Donald Trump Avoided Vietnam Draft Because His Feet Hurt
As president bans transgender people who want to serve, let’s look back at why he didn’t
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Trump’s Transgender Ban Is Horrific – But Focus on Health Care (Commentary)
The GOP is literally, at this moment, trying to take away health care from millions
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Trump Shares Video From Unnamed Source After Aide Blasts Unnamed Sources (Video)
Video shows an unnamed “PV journalist” getting CNN’s Van Jones to say privately what he’s already said publicly
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CNN Resorts to Sketching White House Press Briefings, Draws Derision
Back to the drawing board?
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Watch This ‘Jackie’ Actor Deliver JFK’s Lost, Never-Delivered Speech (Video)
Kennedy would have turned 100 today. Here’s Caspar Phillipson reading the powerful speech JFK was scheduled to give on the date of his assassination
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‘Twin Peaks’ Review: Give Yourself a Present
What if the mystery was always just a great excuse for savory delights?
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Review: U2 Reminds Americans What It Means to Be American
The group revisits “The Joshua Tree” — an album in love with America as a concept, and afraid of it in execution
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Der Sturmer: Why There Are So Many Pictures of the Nazi Tabloid Today
Trump’s plan to publicize crimes by illegal immigrants draws comparison to a tactic used by the Nazis
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The Secret, Kinda Sweet Origin of ‘Cash Me Outside, How Bow Dah?’
Vulnerability seems to be at the heart of a 13-year-old girl’s challenge to an entire “Dr. Phil” audience
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Sean Spicer’s Urgent Tweet to the Nation: ‘n9y25ah7’
Trump press secretary tweets and deletes something that “looks an awful lot like a password,” according to Gizmodo
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Watch Mary Tyler Moore’s ‘SNL’ Monologue About ‘Penis’ Protests (Video)
Moore’s monologue was one of the all-time best
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How a Smackdown, ‘Golden Showers’ and Nazis Helped Trump’s Fake Ethics Plan Slide
Trump talks about “fake news” instead of his fake plan
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Remember Carrie Fisher’s Magnificent Advice From ‘When Harry Met Sally…’ (Video)
Think about this before you tell a joke or buy a coffee table
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Trump Should Fix the Electoral College He Called a ‘Disaster’
He was right to call it a “disaster for a democracy,” and now he should do something about it
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No, ‘Last Tango in Paris’ Director Did Not Say Marlon Brando Committed Rape
Actress Maria Schneider said exactly what happened on the set of the film a decade ago. People should have listened
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Is It OK for Reporters to Call Racists Racist?
More visible racism in Donald Trump era challenges rules of fairness and accuracy
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Corey Lewandowski, CNN’s New Trump Mouthpiece, Already Leaving for Some Reason
Remember Corey? The new guy? Already gone
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A Pep Talk to America From California, Where We’ve Been Through This Nightmare Before
If you’re horrified by President Trump, here’s how we got through Gov. Schwarzenegger — and what we learned
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‘Black Mirror’ Fact Check: Do Most Soldiers Really Not Shoot?
The episode “Men Against Fire” is inspired by a book of the same name that has been widely cited by warmakers — but might be wrong
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Let’s Imagine the Day After Donald Trump Rejects the Election Results (Commentary)
A news story after Election Day might look a little like this
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Donald Trump Is Wildly Wrong About the Central Park Five, Even by Donald Trump Standards
The wrongly convicted men were set free and given $40 million after the real rapist in the 1989 case confessed
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Woody Guthrie Wrote a Poem Calling Donald Trump’s Dad a Racist – Here It Is
Happy National Poetry Day
