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As Bernie and Hillary continue try to outstrip one another in the Great Pander Off of 2016, it seems like an eternity ago that there was an actual grownup in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. But it was only in October that Jim Webb gave up his run. 

Alicia (Juliana Margulies) throws a party for Peter’s mother and her fiancé in “Party,” CBS’s The Good Wife’s latest episode. From the wrong flowers arriving – funeral arrangements instead of the ones she ordered – to a cake personalized with “Rest in Peace,” Alicia can’t catch a break. Even the joyous return of son Zach turns bad. 

The first transgender kiss in the history of I Am Cait went down on Sunday night’s show, titled ‘Houston We Have a Problem.’ And…it was every bit as awful as you would expect.

Maybe Cleveland does not rock. Eagles guitarist and solo artist Joe Walsh has a big beef with the Republican Party. Walsh announced on Wednesday that he is ditching a July 18 Cleveland summer concert which would have kicked off the Republican National Convention.

Last night’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy, “Trigger Happy,” went all in on anti-gun messaging. The episode opens with the shocking announcement that the emergency room must prepare to receive an 8-year-old patient with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Speculation begins immediately with hospital staff wondering if the child was hurt in a drive by, or some other crime, but the audience quickly learns…

Inside Amy Schumer began its fourth season tonight on Comedy Central, and apparently the "Inside" part of the show title is literal. If there's one thing Amy Schumer wanted everybody to know in the premiere, it's that she is obsessed with her vagina. 

A congressional probe into whether or not businesses profited from aborted baby body parts should scream big news. But not so for the three broadcast networks. On Wednesday, the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives Subcommittee held a hearing on “The Pricing of Fetal Tissue.” ABC, CBS and NBC didn’t say a word about the hearing during their morning and evening news shows following the…

The sports media continued their postgame celebrations on Thursday, after ESPN’s firing of Curt Schilling. A firing that so many members of the liberal sports media openly, and privately, rooted for.

Thursday morning, NBC co-anchor Savannah Guthrie pressed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on the Republican platform’s stance on the “unborn child.” NBC Today hosted a “Donald Trump Town Hall” April 21. During the live broadcast event, Guthrie asked Trump if he would change his platform’s position on abortion.

Curt Schilling was fired by ESPN on Wednesday, for expressing an opinion online earlier in the week which just happens to be the view held by the vast majority of the American people. Earlier this week, Schilling posted a picture of a transgender person, and made a comment regarding the effort to let transgender men use women’s restrooms.

The leading female star in a telenovela is murdered in Rosewood’s “Silkworms y Silencio” on Fox. The investigation leads to a stalker, Jaime (Ricky Saenz), who pursues the leading male star of the show, even after a restraining order is issued. Jaime is nabbed by Rosewood and Villa and taken in for questioning. This is where the ridiculous plot turn comes in.

The crew of possibly the most hardcore transgender acceptance TV show has a problem with the set’s new trans-friendly bathrooms, TMZ reports. Bathrooms on the set of Amazon’s “Transparent” were changed to unisex in keeping with the spirit of the show in order to be more inclusive of transgenders, of which there are many on this set. The bathroom sign was altered to feature the universal sign for…

The media shy away from calling an unborn human being a “baby” or “person.” But according to one star, before she gave birth, she “grew a human.” New Girl actress Zooey Deschanel graced the cover of Redbook’s May 2016 issue. Inside, the 36-year-old talked motherhood with freelance writer Jessica Pressler after giving birth to her little girl, Elsie Otter, last year. 

The former MSNBC host obsessed with race and gender issues has found her new niche as Editor-at-Large at Elle.com covering race, gender, politics, fashion, and the “often-overlooked stories of women and girls of color.” Harris-Perry, a professor at Wake Forest University is sure to add her liberal feminist touch to her coverage at Elle, just as she did on her MSNBC show, which she began hosting…