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…
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…
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…
She Worked One of the Real Cases Behind “True Detective.” She Says We Still Haven’t Learned Its Lessons.
Lisa Waddell / ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Mara Leveritt looks back on her time covering the West Memphis Three case, she is reminded of her favorite quote from Joseph Conrad: “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” In…
Make—and Devour—the Dumpling from Pixar’s Oscar-Nominated Film “Bao”
Disney Pixar Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ingredients Filling (adjust all seasoning to taste) 1 lb of ground pork 1 lb of chinese cabbaged (minced) 1 carrot (minced) 2-3 green onion stalks (chopped) 1 egg 1-2 ground ginger 1 tsp olive oil 1/2 tsp chicken bouillon powder 1 tsp oyster…
Oakland Teachers Are Striking for More Pay, Smaller Classes, and an End to School Closures Like This One
Rosa Furneaux/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday morning, on the first day of Oakland’s teacher strike, a dozen or so teachers from Roots International Academy gathered around a branch-and-grass mandala in front of their school in East Oakland. Bundled up in school jackets, puffy coats, and gloves,…