Friday A/V Club: Shedding Their White Identities
Rachel Dolezal wasn't the first.
Television
A Christian Libertarian Take on the McKinney Swimming Pool Outrage
"The cop with the girl under his knees does not see her as himself, which she is."
Sense8: The Wachowskis Bring Their Hallucinatory Visions to Television
First season of show about strangers with mysterious mental connections debuts on Netflix.
In PATRIOT Act Fight, Rand Paul Is the Jon Snow of Congress
And now his watch is ended.
Watch the First-Ever Greg Gutfeld Show on Fox News Tonite at 10 PM ET
The co-host of The Five and former host of Red Eye debuts his take on news and media.
NBC's Aquarius Has David Duchovny As a Sixties Cop Tracking Down Charles Manson
Premieres tonight at 9pm ET.
Friday A/V Club: Mort Sahl's Guide to the Political Spectrum
How the left, the right, and the middle looked in 1967
With Liberty and Drag For All! What We Saw at RuPaul's First Ever DragCon
Drag is finding a mainstream audience.
Does Torture Work?
Frontline examines the brutality detailed in the Senate's report on CIA interrogations.
The Cola Cult
A short note on the end of Mad Men, by a guy who has never actually watched Mad Men
A&E Cancels Prostitution 'Reality' Series 8 Minutes
Sex workers say both premise of show and promises of help for them were a sham.
Bill O'Reilly: Zero Tolerance for Police Brutality
Could new-found attention to police violence be causing an actual political shift?
CNN Won't Cut Away from White House Correspondents' Dinner, Reassures Viewers They'll 'Find Out All of What Happened in the Streets of Baltimore by This Time Tomorrow'
CNN contributor notes that people can go online for information instead.
What HBO's Pickup of a Pot-Focused Web Comedy Says About the Future of Television
The pay cable network has ordered six episodes of High Maintenance, about a Brooklyn pot dealer.
How Netflix's New Daredevil Series Makes Torture Into a Virtue
The superhero show celebrates the violent interrogations inflicted by its main character.
The Last Witness to Lincoln's Assassination Goes On a Game Show
It has been 150 years since John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln. This man was there.
VID: Larry King on Drugs, Cryonics, Politics, Airplane Sex Orgies, and Half-Libertarianism
The broadcast legend talks about new media, his online shows, and how he would have interviewed Osama bin Laden.
Larry King on Drugs, Cryonics, Politics, Airplane Sex Orgies, and Half-Libertarianism
The broadcast legend talks about new media, his online shows, and how he would have interviewed Osama bin Laden.
On Trevor Noah, Lena Dunham, and Offensive Comedy—Stop Politicizing Everything
Hyper-partisan cultural commentators are on auto-pilot.
Martin O'Malley: The Challenger Who Dares Not Speak Clinton's Name
The former Maryland governor promotes his potential presidential campaign on This Week.
Friday A/V Club: Long-Haired Country Boys
A country music star wants to get into the marijuana business. There was a time when that would have sounded weird.
Did President Obama Admit the US is Controlled by Space Aliens?
Obama UFO joke on Jimmy Kimmel Live throws conspiracy theorists into a frenzy.
"That's It, House of Cards. You Lost Me."
A show that was once darkly great has descended into prosaic moralism. God save us from fictional pols who are serious about jobs programs.
Rand Paul Cancelled a Parks and Rec Cameo Alongside Ron Swanson
Showrunner says Paul bailed at the last minute.
The Uncanny Valley of House of Cards Season Three
The Underwoods' world is close enough to our own to provoke both fascination and revulsion.
He Lived Long and He Prospered: R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy, the Man Who Was Spock
His role on Star Trek paved the way for decades of geek culture.
Frank Underwood Cares: A House of Cards Political Ad
Could Frank Underwood Beat Vladimir Putin? Bitch, Please.
Jon Stewart and Me
We agreed more than we disagreed but Jon is a comic genius and may be the smartest personality on television.
Friday A/V Club: Ice-T's Guide to Sexual Subcultures
When the down-low panic came to Law and Order: SVU
Social Justice on the Small Screen: Primetime Tackles GamerGate, Men's Rights, & Campus Rape
Ripped from the headlines Twitter timelines
Friday A/V Club: World Leader Predicts TV Will Solve the Planet's Problems
A blast of techo-utopianism from 1929
Don't Expect Foreign Policy Restraint from Scott Walker
And for now, don't expect foreign policy specifics either.
