America's great sleeping giant awakens, roars and puts an end to it

What happened AlterNet reports that Hasan Piker sued CNN contributor Scott Jennings in federal court in Washington, D.C., alleging defamation and seeking $72.5 million in damages. The complaint concerns an August broadcast on Jennings’s Salem radio show, where Jennings said Piker was “calling for B…

What happened AlterNet reports that director Kevin Greutert believes studios and financiers avoid explicit Trump-era political stories because they fear alienating “half of the American body politic.” He said that concern killed The Endorsement, a proposed horror film about a small-town journalist …

What happened AlterNet reports that Michael A. Cohen, director of the International Affairs Program at The New School, described President Donald Trump’s rallies as an “ego-stroking exercise” meant to fill what Cohen called a “limitless void.” That is Cohen’s psychological interpretation, not a fac…

What happened AlterNet reports that Trump biographer Michael Wolff predicted Democrats would win the House, the Senate, and a contested Texas Senate race in the midterm elections the following week. His answer to the headline’s premise was that Republican money would be overwhelmed by voter contemp…