It Was the Ottolenghi Decade, and We Just Cooked in It
Mother Jones Illustration; Getty Video didn’t actually kill the radio star, but internet streaming services pretty much did. Somehow, analog cookbooks have avoided similar digital erasure. Despite the blooming of a thousand recipe blogs, websites, and apps, new culinary tomes printed on real paper continue to emerge every year, even in the cursed 2010s—which turned out…
Monsters of the 2010s: NFL Owners
MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. The National Football League spent the first half of the 2010s covering up a cover-up. The league knew that its on-field product was giving its own employees brain damage, but as the New York Times reported in 2016,…
Here’s How Lebanese Environmentalists Helped Spark a Green Revolution
Rubbish bags piled up on the side of the road in the Jdeideh neighbourhood, north of Beirut, Lebanon.Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty This piece was originally published in Sierra Magazine. Five Gen-Zers crouched around a small pile of trash in the center of Martyr’s Square in downtown Beirut in the early November sun. Wearing white gloves, they sorted…
Federal Judge Allows Georgia to Remove 100,000 Voters
A line backs up into a parking garage outside an Atlanta polling site on Election Day in November 2018. David Goldman/AP A federal judge is allowing Georgia to remove nearly 100,000 inactive voters from its rolls, rebuffing a legal challenge arguing that the removals violate Georgians’ constitutional right to vote. On Friday, US District Court Judge…
Amy McGrath Is Now Officially Challenging Mitch McConnell
Former Marine pilot Amy McGrath concedes in November 2018 in Richmond, Kentucky, after losing to Rep. Andy Barr. Charles Bertram/ZUMA Amy McGrath, a Democrat and former Marine fighter pilot, has officially filed to challenge Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky’s 2020 US Senate election. In the 2018 midterm elections, McGrath narrowly lost to Rep. Andy…
Navy SEALs Call Edward Gallagher “Freaking Evil” and “Toxic” in Leaked Videos
Edward Gallagher walks out of military court in July in San Diego, California.Sandy Huffaker/Getty Navy SEALs told investigators that Edward Gallagher, the former SEAL accused of war crimes whom President Donald Trump called one of “our great fighters,” targeted women and children with violence and was “evil” and “toxic.” In videos leaked to the New…