A Big Legal Victory for Voting Rights in Florida, and a Rebuke Against its Republican Governor
James Borchuck/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA My colleague, and MoJo’s resident Big Brain on all things voting, pointed out this major legal win in Florida on Friday: A group of 20 people with felony convictions was suing the state over a new law requiring them to repay any fines or fees they owed before they could register…
British Parliament Hands Boris Johnson Another Brexit Blow. Everything Is Still Chaos.
Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP In Parliament’s first Saturday session since the Falklands war—dubbed, questionably, “Super Saturday”—Democratic Unionists from Ireland ensured the passage of the Letwin amendment to trigger a Brexit extension request required by the Benn Act. Confused? Me too. Read on. Heading into the session, Prime Minister Boris Johnson needed the parliament to provide a “meaningful…
As the Planet Warms, Diseases Thrive Where They Didn’t Before
In this Oct. 13, 2008 photo, Lucila Huerta, tends to her husband Guadalupe, who is suffering from Valley Fever and other medical problems, in their apartment in Madera, Calif.John Walker/AP This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When the first locally acquired case of Valley fever…
L Devine Is Defining the Pop Music Genre—By Making It Messier
Robin Pope/ZUMA Pop music can suck—like really suck—sometimes. It also can be really good—like really good—sometimes. But for too long the genre was demeaned as exclusively “the taste of 13-year-olds.” Critics were long given license to tear into the genre and its stars. In a 2014 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair poll, they asked “Which decade had the worst…
John Kasich Calls for Impeachment
Yesterday, White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admitted on national TV that Donald Trump had attempted to use vital military aide to extort Ukraine into investigating Democrats. Mulvaney made a valiant attempt to un-admit that in a statement issued hours later, but the damage was already done. For some Republicans on Capitol Hill, Mulvaney’s…
Today Is My 5-Year Anniversary
Remember this?Kevin Drum Five years ago I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and my oncologist told me the average lifespan following diagnosis was . . . about five years. But here I am, feeling fine¹ and testing out brand new chemo meds that didn’t even exist in 2014. So what do I want for my…