Sexism

HBO’s John Oliver returned to 2023 and 2024 on Sunday’s edition of Last Week Tonight as he sought to explain why Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and current university president Richard Corcoran, and conservative activist Chris Rufo’s rebrand of New College of Florida is worse than the Nazis.

Late on Thursday, the New York Times came out with a story by Katie Glueck and Lisa Lerer that featured GOP operative Lyndsey Fifield making accusations against progressive darling and Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, including how “she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab…

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host of the week, Michael Kosta, unwittingly announced to the world on Wednesday that he lives in a bubble. While discussing former reality show personality Spencer Pratt’s rise in the Los Angeles mayoral primary, Kosta wondered, “How did this country get so stupid?” and concluded it was because nobody reads books anymore. Speaking of books, Kosta later…

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel unveiled his proposal on how to end the war with Iran on Tuesday that included sending President Trump to Iran and making him the new ayatollah. According to Kimmel, this would not be far-fetched because Trump and the ayatollah share many of the same views on things like free speech and women’s rights.

NBC’s Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che were at it again this past weekend. A week after joking about President Trump hypothetically getting shot again, they considered the possibility of Second Lady Usha Vance committing suicide to get away from Vice President JD Vance. Along the way, the duo would launch other outrageous attacks, including…

National Public Radio recently aired two frankly sexist episodes of its race-based podcast Code Switch, hosted by B.A. Parker and Gene Demby. The April 1 edition: “'Mar-a-Lago face': MAGA's aesthetic loyalty test." This sexist angle, which NPR surely wouldn’t tolerate from the right, was barely skimmed on the show or by its guest from the left-wing magazine Mother Jones.

Actress Meryl Streep stopped by CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday to help spread the fictitious narrative that Republicans are trying to make voting impossible or, at least, more difficult for married women.

The U.S. men’s and women’s Olympic hockey teams both defeating Canada in overtime to win the gold medal should have been a joyous moment for the country. However, too many in the sports media have decided that it is their life’s mission to ruin this great moment by trashing the men’s team for not joining the left’s anti-Trump jihad.

An amazingly snobbish piece by New York Times labor reporter Rebecca Davis O’Brien appeared Friday on the front of the Business section: “Recasting Workplace Bias In Trump’s Image.” The online subhead provided the flavor: “Employment Commission Chair Recasts Workplace Discrimination in Trump’s Image -- Andrea Lucas, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has said…

As the Supreme Court held oral arguments on Tuesday on a case about transgender sports, MS NOW senior legal reporter Lisa Rubin and professor and podcaster Leah Litman assembled on Ana Cabrera Reports to allege that observing biological differences between the sexes is a right-wing fear campaign and the sort of sex discrimination not allowed by the Constitution.

MS NOW’s Ali Velshi and historian Heather Cox Richardson joined forces on Saturday to hurl what might be the most incendiary and stupid hot take on the situation in Minneapolis to date. According to Richardson, ICE Agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good because she was a woman trying to de-escalate the situation.

For the left, 2026 will be a sad year in the realm of late night comedy because The Late Show host Stephen Colbert will depart the scene in May. For everyone else, the CBS host’s Monday ode to the Soviet Union with Puck News Washington correspondent Julia Ioffe was a good reminder of why they will not miss him.

Former MSNBC host Krystal Ball joined foul-mothed and extremist I’ve Had It podcast co-host Jennifer Welch to whine about non-white ICE agents and female members of the second Trump administration. The episode, entitled …

Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS was more feistily anti-Trumpism than usual, with moderator Jeffrey Goldberg leading the panel into various anti-Trump segments, including the president’s fraught relationship with the mainstream press. Goldberg used Trump’s spat with two female reporters in the White House press pool to label Trump, an equal-opportunity insulter, as a…