Opinion Category: News

Model and media personality Chrissy Teigen is the latest Twitter user to earn a unique badge of honor: being blocked by the President of the United States. On Tuesday, Teigen tweeted: “After 9 years of hating Donald J Trump, telling him ‘lol no one likes you’ was the straw.” Included in that tweet was a […]

After months of working behind the scenes, President Trump’s senior adviser/son-in-law Jared Kushner gave a long-awaited defense of his interactions with Russians this week. As it turns out, that defense is barely moving the needle on Twitter. Kushner met with the Senate and House intelligence committees, released an 11-page statement and gave a public address […]

President Trump has directed his ire at foes and friends alike since assuming office, but his latest target is somehow still surprising. That would be Attorney General Jeff Sessions, one of Trump’s earliest supporters during what was then a long-shot presidential campaign. POTUS has been fuming that Sessions recused himself from the ongoing Russia investigation […]

Given the annexing of Crimea and Kremlin meddling in the U.S. election, which has set off investigations preoccupying Washington, it’s no wonder that America’s relationship with Russia is in frosty waters. Gone are the days when George W. Bush looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and “got a sense of his soul.” Even former Russian leader […]

For most of the 2017 NBA offseason, the Cleveland Cavaliers appeared to be the best team in the Eastern Conference, but a recent trade request by star point guard Kyrie Irving has thrown that assumption out the window. Last week, reports emerged that Irving was tired of playing second banana to LeBron James and wants […]

Michael Phelps has bested the world’s greatest human swimmers, but on Sunday he put his skills to the test against one of the sea’s fiercest predators, a Great White shark. At least, that’s the way the Discovery Channel advertised Sunday night of its annual “Shark Week.” But instead of a face-to-face match between “Great Gold” […]

President Trump’s newfound interest in pardons has his supporters on the defensive and most of Social eyeing the situation skeptically. On Saturday morning, Trump tweeted, “While all agree the U.S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS.” The Washington Post […]

As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republicans scramble to find a solution to the healthcare debacle, Social is souring on their plan by the minute. From July 10 until July 21, sentiment related to “healthcare bill” showed brief glimmers of recovery, only to drop further and further. On July 10, 42 percent of responses […]

President Donald Trump’s inner circle has had plenty of shake-ups, but the latest addition and subtraction is getting dismal ratings on social media. Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci was named White House Communications Director on Friday, finally seeing returns on his early support of Trump. On the campaign trail, he rallied countless donors to the […]

O.J. Simpson was once the fastest player to grace the San Francisco 49ers’ roster, but not even the legendary running back could outrun the law after narrowly escaping its clutches in his infamous 1995 murder trial. He was jailed in 2008 for an armed robbery in Las Vegas, but after serving nine years, the Nevada […]

A Canadian dessert destination has stirred up Internet interest with a bizarre food combination. Ontario-based Sugar Sugar recently introduced a cotton candy burrito filled with ice cream. Storeowner Martin Lacombe told Insider he thought the cotton candy would melt, but with enough layering, that turned out to not be the case. Anyone daring enough to […]

Faux Mexican chain Chipotle is a bit under the weather — just like a bunch of its customers. More than 130 people have now claimed they were sickened after eating at the restaurant and at least one case of norovirus, a foodborne illness that dogged the company back in 2015, has been confirmed. In addition, […]

Over the weekend, we got a reminder that other countries around the globe aren’t as liberal as the West. American allies such as Saudi Arabia are highly conservative, and strict public dress codes are enforced. In Saudi Arabia, all women (including foreigners) are required to wear long robes known as abayas whenever in public. But […]

Game of Thrones fans are not thrilled after the show opted for an Ed Sheeran cameo during the season premiere last weekend. The British pop star showed off his singing chops in a brief scene, along with a couple of quick lines. Although that was the extent of his involvement, the reaction on Social was […]

Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House eight months ago, but comparisons and popularity contests between the two are still going strong. Trump has constantly referenced Clinton and alleged scandals he thinks she’s gotten away with as a counter to the many criticisms his still-young Administration has faced. And while […]

The Texas state legislature, despite seeing the fallout from North Carolina’s divisive HB-2 “bathroom bill” (at least partially repealed last March), is considering legislation mandating that people use the rest room corresponding to the gender on their birth certificate — no matter what gender they identify as currently. Lone Star lawmakers will be discussing State […]

Self-driving cars might be the stuff of Uber’s dreams, but Elon Musk warned a panel of U.S. governors this weekend that the technology behind them could become a nightmare. In fact, unless regulations are imposed on artificial intelligence, it could destroy the job market, Musk warned. And in a capitalist economy that depends on a […]

Musician Kid Rock is toying with a potential Senate run, and Democrats aren’t dismissing his chances. Rock—whose real name is Robert James Ritchie—launched kidrockforsenate.com last week, which redirects to his regular website and an “announcement.” He wrote that he hasn’t made a final decision on running in 2018, but he has been stirring up interest […]

Fox News anchor Shepard Smith has increasingly made his disapproval of President Trump known over the last few months, but last week he really let loose. While speaking to fellow Fox News host/Trump skeptic Chris Wallace, Smith hammered the Trump team for not immediately coming clean about Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Kremlin-connected Russians. “The […]

Donald Trump Jr. is getting most of the scorn/attention in recent days for his role in organizing a meeting with Russians allegedly connected to the Kremlin to collect dirt on Hillary Clinton, but President Trump’s son-in-law isn’t exactly Mr. Popularity either. Jared Kushner, along with Trump’s then- campaign chieftain Paul Manafort, attended that fateful meeting […]

Title IX, passed in 1972 to combat gender-based discrimination in universities and colleges, has long been seen as a cornerstone of student rights on campus. Providing a structure and legal basis for students to bring complaints against an institution over sexual misconduct, Title IX has also come under fire for operating under a burden-of-proof standard, […]

Once the destination of every teenager with nothing to do on a Friday night, shopping malls may be slow-walking to an online grave. With a majority of Americans preferring to shop online, according to a BigCommerce study, brick-and-mortar stores are closing their doors and filing for bankruptcy. Children’s clothing chain Gymboree filed for bankruptcy in […]

There was an awkward moment on Wednesday at the Senate confirmation hearing for Christopher Wray, nominated by President Trump to replace fired FBI Director James Comey. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) asked Wray what politicians should do if they were contacted by a foreign government offering to assist with their campaign. What made it even more […]

The penultimate season of Game of Thrones begins on Sunday, and among a strong cast of female characters, it appears Arya Stark is perhaps the most respected on Social. The younger Stark sister has a 63 percent positive score over the last 90 days, which far exceeds older sister Sansa Stark’s 50 percent. Only Gilly, […]

As HBO’s Game of Thrones embarks on its seventh season, Social has grown to hold negative views of many of the male characters. Ser Bronn of the Blackwater is the only one with high marks, boasting a 70 percent positive score over the last 90 days, but he has a low volume of responses. The […]

When President Donald Trump called for more transparency during the 2016 campaign, he probably was not talking about his proposed wall on the Mexican border. Fast forward, and Trump said this week that the wall would have to be see-through to prevent bags of drugs being tossed over it and hitting an unsuspecting passerby. The […]

More than two months since the House of Representatives passed an initial repeal-and-replace health care proposal, the Senate is still struggling to come up with its own version, and Republicans are getting antsy. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the unusual step of delaying the August recess to give the Senate more time to work on […]

The city of Seattle is directly challenging Washington State with an income tax measure that’s drawing national attention. On Monday the Seattle City Council passed an income tax of 2.25 percent on earnings above $250,000 for individuals and $500,000 for couples. The vote was a unanimous 9-0, and the taxes would bring in around $140 […]

Blue Whales aren’t considered particularly dangerous by marine biologists, but in the turbulent waters of the online universe, they have come to represent a terrifying game may have already claimed two teenage lives in the U.S. The Blue Whale Challenge takes the form of 50 daily tasks involving listening to music, waking up at odd […]

A slow dribble of a story involving Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer has quickly morphed into a full-on flood of a controversy. On Tuesday, after Trump Jr. was informed by The New York Times that the paper was going to publish emails of his plans to meet with someone thought to be connected […]

In the latest sign that no one can agree on anything except that nothing can be agreed upon, Republicans have apparently turned on the idea of college. A new Pew Research poll indicates that while 55 percent of Americans still believe higher education institutions have a positive effect, only 36 percent of Republicans feel that […]

Social’s favorite geological formation may soon blow up more than Vin Diesel and the box office. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s next starring role could put him on the 2020 presidential ballot, according to the Federal Elections Commission. A campaign committee calling itself “Run the Rock 2020” filed paperwork on behalf of the actor and former […]

The world runs on coffee. According to the Los Angeles Times, about 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day. But now, new studies published in Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday suggest that those 2.25 billion cups are doing more good than anyone could have suspected. One study, which had been tracking people […]

The G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, concluded on Sunday, and the global consensus seems to be that President Trump failed to impress at his first major meeting with the leaders of the free world. He was pictured alone at several points during the summit, looking isolated, and was passed over for key seating arrangements and […]

For all of recorded history, humans have had a pretty well established method of ingesting chocolate, which is putting it in their mouths and swallowing. Their reasoning has been straightforward enough: chocolate tastes good. But an Orlando-based company called Legal Lean has a different idea—it wants consumers to snort chocolate. Legal Lean’s product, called Coco […]