It’s Not Your Imagination, the Middle of a City Is Hotter Than Anywhere Else
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The year is 2018. Cities are hot. Really, really hot. Thanks to something called the “urban heat island effect,” cities like Los Angeles and New York are literally the hottest places to…
Let Us All Unite in Praise of Better French Fries
Reporters via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Longtime readers may remember my unhappiness about modern french fries cooked in vegetable oil. Back in the day, fries were cooked in beef tallow or something similar, and they tasted great! Today everybody is afraid a bit of cow fat is going…
While America Sleeps: Trump’s Treachery and the Russia Scandal
Donald Trump meets with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Listen to David discuss the president’s cover-up of the Russia scandal on the Mother Jones Podcast. In 1938, Winston Churchill published a collection of his speeches warning that his homeland was not…
The Heartwarming Messages Shared Between the Stranded Thai Boys and Their Parents
A boy smiles as a Thai Navy SEAL medic helps injured children inside a cave in northern Thailand, where a group of boys and their soccer coach were trapped.Royal Thai Navy Facebook Page/AP The kids wrote about their favorite meals, their school obligations, and helping their parents at the store. The families told them they…
Trump Opens NATO Summit by Accusing Germany of Being “Totally Controlled by Russia”
Bernd Von Jutrczenka/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. German Chancellor Angela Merkel hit back at President Donald Trump after he accused Germany of being “totally controlled by Russia”‘ and urged allies to look into the issue during a rant at the outset of this week’s NATO summit in Brussels. “I’ve…
Inside the Radical, Uncomfortable Movement to Reform White Supremacists
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On July 4, 2013, one of Shane Johnson’s pals pushed through the front door of his trailer and announced that “a bunch of black guys” had just “said some shit to him.” Johnson was small and lithe, tattooed from neck to toe with swastikas, and…