The Traumatized Horror of Adolescence
The traumatized horror of adolescence is coming soon to a Broadway theater near you! Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at Vox, Constance Grady reposts her review of the musical Be More Chill, a teen sensation that came (literally) out of nowhere; has now migrated to off-Broadway; and will finally…
Bernie Sanders Just Ramped Up His Feud With Amazon
New legislation would require Amazon to help pay for the welfare benefits its employees receive.Ted S. Warren/ AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has spent much of 2018 feuding with Amazon and the company’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, with Sanders objecting to the low wages offered by…
An Imam Was Gunned Down in New York City. His Wife Says It Was a Hate Crime.
A member of the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque stands near a police sketch of a suspect believed to have shot the mosque’s Imam, at the end of an evening prayer service at the mosque in the Ozone Park section of Queens, New York.Craig Ruttle/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This…
Who the Hell Cares About Steve Bannon Anymore?
New Yorker editor David Remnick.Edu Bayer/EFE via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The New Yorker Festival, which will take place next month, will take place without Steve Bannon. After he was invited, other folks started dropping out in droves, and before long it looked as if it would be…
Today It Locks Up Immigrants. But CoreCivic’s Roots Lie in the Brutal Past of America’s Prisons.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2015, I spent four months working undercover as a guard at a medium-security Louisiana prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) with the aim of reporting on the conditions inside a private prison for Mother Jones. Shortly after I began, I was shown…
Ayanna Pressley Just Pulled Off a Historic Upset in Massachusetts
Ayanna Pressley for Congress/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrat Ayanna Pressley on Tuesday defeated 10-term incumbent Rep. Michael Capuano in one of the biggest upsets of this year’s primary season. With no Republican challenger, she will almost certainly go on to represent Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District, which is solidly blue…