Shawn Cooke

More than a week later, and the Capitol siege continues to cast its dark, absurd shadow over the music industry. The Backstreet Boys are potentially subtweeting each other over QAnon support. On Thursday night, Ariel Pink appeared on Tucker Carlson…

Former presidential candidate and champion of universal basic income Andrew Yang announced a long-rumored New York City mayoral campaign on Wednesday night. Yang kicked it off with a trailer-length campaign video, directed by Darren Aronofsky, but…

Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm star, is holding to the assertion that he and his client bear no responsibility for the Capitol insurrection last week. Despite months of loud, leaky protestations…

The first week since the Capitol siege has fueled as many questions as answers. How close did rioters come to using their zip ties on members of Congress? To what extent were they aided by Capitol police and possibly even other Hill insiders? How…

As the Golden Globes and Oscars delayed their ceremonies with a widened eligibility window, the also-delayed secondary precursor awards are starting to dish out their trophies. Chadwick Boseman, who died last August from complications related to…

Your level of surprise at last week’s Capitol riot is directly proportional to two things: how isolated you are from extremist rhetoric, and how literally you take said rhetoric when it appears on a garishly designed custom T-shirt. Even if your…

In the immediate aftermath of something like last week’s Capitol siege, polling isn’t always a helpful indicator, but of course there was still polling. Nearly one fifth of Republican voters approved of the attack as of Friday, but 88 percent of all…

Following the Capitol siege on Wednesday, which claimed five lives and stopped short of becoming something far deadlier, President Trump has been deplatformed from a number of tech outlets. Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Snapchat, Twitch, Shopify,…

Such a vast ensemble of characters emerged from Wednesday’s Capitol siege — you have Britney Spears’s 55-hour ex-husband, Jason Allen Alexander; the pelt-covered fellow who’s the son of a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge; the well-known QAnon shaman who…

After Trump-supporting goons smashed windows, took selfies with Capitol police, and lounged in Nancy Pelosi’s office on Wednesday, you might deduce that there aren’t any rules to this stuff — or, at the very least, cops make their own distinctions…

While we’re already beginning to see the deflection of blame for Wednesday’s events, from the right-wing politicians and pundits who stirred up fraudulent election conspiracies for two months and revolutionary cosplay for far longer, there’s no…

After President Trump urged supporters during a Wednesday rally to march to the U.S. Capitol, in a last-ditch effort to overturn the 2020 election results, hundreds of them did just that. A large subset of the crowd descended on the Capitol building…

On Tuesday night, just before the Georgia runoff results started to trickle in, TMZ broke some concerning news about Dr. Dre. The legendary rapper had been hospitalized after suffering a brain aneurysm on Monday, and stayed overnight at Cedars-Sinai…

If you need a reminder that any Instagrammable, minimalist digital media aesthetic can be co-opted by the worst people in the world at any moment, look no further than the CIA’s newest web redesign. When it debuted on Monday, the Company’s new-look…

Over the long New Year’s weekend, with restless energy and little else to do, “Bean Dad” was born against everyone’s will. One of those things that played out entirely on Twitter and would sound patently crazy to anyone not on the platform, his…

Depending on who you ask, the Georgia Senate runoff elections on Tuesday are either incredibly important to stave off years of gridlock during a Joe Biden administration, almost guaranteed to leave the Senate majority unchanged, or... an event that…

Everyone had their own moment when it sunk in that we’d be here for a while. For most, it came on March 11, with the trifecta of Tom Hanks's positive test, the NBA suspending its season, and the U.S. travel ban. But this realization was punctuated…

It seems a question of when rather than if the podcast bubble pops, but there’s definitely no indication of it happening anytime soon. This year found Spotify going all in on high-profile podcasting, acquiring shows from Joe Rogan, Michelle Obama,…

It’s an odd, and probably harmful, reflex to describe someone finally facing consequences for alleged crimes or misdeeds as “having a bad year.” After losing a libel lawsuit against The Sun, which labeled him a “wife beater” for extensive domestic…