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Returning after a two-week hiatus, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah said he’d decided to escape the racial tension in this country by visiting his native South Africa during his vacation. But it was “chaos” there, so he returned to the U.S. early, to “chill.” “Turns out, I left the Third World and landed in the Third…

President Donald Trump’s ignorance about Nazism is responsible for his infamous Tuesday press conference claim that all sides were to blame for the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Trump pal Bill O’Reilly says. In an opinion piece posted this morning on The Hill, the former Fox News Channel star…

After a turbulent 17-day vacation at his golf club in New Jersey, Donald Trump is back in Washington and back at his attacks on the “dishonest fake news media” – aka non-Fox News and non-alt-right news outlets. In his latest, Trump tweets “Thank you. The very dishonest fake news media is out of control! It was a reply…

Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon became the White House flotsam, John Oliver noted at the top of HBO’s Last Week Tonight. Like various TV news programs before him, Oliver showed that infamous Oval Office photo of Trump talking on phone to Russian ruler Vladimir Putin while surrounded by his team of Reince…

Add Univision Communications CEO Randy Falco to the growing list of executives calling for full-throated opposition to bigotry following President Donald Trump’s response to last weekend’s clashes in Charlottesville. Without mentioning Trump by name, Falco said in an open letter that he opposes the “abject failure to…

UPDATED with George C. Wolfe signing letter: All 17 citizen members of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities have resigned in the wake of President Donald Trump’s stance on the violence last weekend in Charlottesville, VA. The committee, which includes actor Kal Penn and former Sen. Ted Kennedy’s…

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a video message for Donald Trump, telling the president he has “a moral responsibility to send an unequivocal message that you won’t stand for hate and racism.” The video is the latest broadside against Trump’s response that “both sides” were responsible for the carnage in Charlottesville…

Add Fox News boss James Murdoch to the growing list of business executives taking issue with President Donald Trump’s Charlottesville riot response. Murdoch, the CEO of 21st Century Fox, the parent of conservative-leaning Fox News Channel, said he and his wife, Kathryn, would donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation…

President Donald Trump might find Confederate statues “beautiful,” but Hollywood celebrities and Beltway pundits find nothing quite so charming about the Civil War signifiers. The fallout from last weekend’s violence in Charlottesville – prompted by the planned removal of a Robert E. Lee statue – has continued well…

Donald Trump: it's about the statues. POTUS this morning came out in support of Confederate statues, tweeting about the beauty and history they contribute to our cities and parks. Not coincidentally, last weeks violence in Charlottesville, Virginia began when neo-Nazi and white-supremacist art lovers rallied to…

Twitter just added another civic-minded and socially aware voice to its feed of tweets. Academy Award-winning director Damien Chazelle joined the social media platform with the specific intention to share his views on the current political climate. Decided to join Twitter because I feel a responsibility to add my…

UPDATED with letter from Howard Rodman below, 1:25 PM: Saying that President Donald Trump's latest comments on the recent violence in Charlottesville, VA, have disgraced the United States, the WGA West has issued a statement today: "The Writers Guild of America West believes in free speech – even from Nazis and white…