Nakaya’s Newest Tracks Are an Eerie Take on Nostalgia and Loss
Peter Pascucci Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: Ballet Shoes by Nakaya (NAKAYA, 2019) Why we’re into it: An alternative mix of R&B, electronica, and a hint of folk, Ballet Shoes explores in heartbreaking ways the experience of coming to terms with the past. “Sometimes, when you make something you truly…
R. Kelly Was Just Charged With 10 Counts of Sexual Abuse
R. Kelly in New York in 2013 RTN Jon Palmer/MediaPunch Inc./IPX Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. R&B singer R. Kelly was charged Friday in Chicago with 10 counts of criminal sexual abuse between 1998 and 2010, including of at least three teenagers. The indictments come after decades of sexual misconduct…
A New HHS Rule Aims to Strip Planned Parenthood’s Title X Funding
Brennan Linsley/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a sweeping effort to defund health care centers that provide abortion services, the Trump administration issued a rule Friday that will bar clinics from critical federal funds if they perform the procedure or give abortion referrals. Under the new directive, groups like…
Kamala Harris and the Coat of Many Colors
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. First it was Kamala Harris and the chicken. Last weekend it was Kamala Harris and the coat of many colors. Robin Abcarian tells us that we are doomed: It was too much for Very Serious Journalist Brit Hume. “This is just embarrassing,” tweeted the Fox…
Two Decades Ago, He Blocked Abortion Clinics and Dodged Police. Now He’s Helping Wage Trump’s War on Reproductive Rights.
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One November afternoon in 1998, about 20 anti-abortion protestors gathered outside a minister’s home on a quiet, tree-lined street in a Madison, Wisconsin suburb. Among them was 23-year-old Matt Bowman, a recent college graduate who had come to town the year before…
A Swamp Story: Trump Encouraged a Foreign Official to Back a Donor’s Business Deal
President Donald Trump and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani take part in a bilateral meeting in Riyadh on May 21, 2017.Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a new scandal for Donald Trump: The president personally encouraged the Qatari government to finance a nuclear power plant…