The Secret Stash of Soviet Street Photographer Masha Ivashintsova
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The “photograph of the missing being…will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.” —Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography Last year, Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan and her husband were renovating their house near St. Petersburg, Russia (formerly, Leningrad), when they stumbled in the…
This Heart-Rending Reunification of Mother and Child Says All You Need to Know About Trump’s Border Policy
Patrick Semansky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, a Guatemalan mother was tearfully reunited with her 7-year-old at the Baltimore airport after being separated at the border a month earlier. The heart-rending scene was captured by ABC News, among other outlets. The mother and child, Beata Mariana de Jesus…
Trump Officials Can No Longer Eat Out in Peace
Chris Kleponis and Ron Sachs/CNP/ZUMA; Cheriss May/NurPhoto/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a rough week for Trump administration officials trying to enjoy a dinner out. First came the run-in on this past Sunday, when White House adviser Stephen Miller was hounded while eating at DC’s Espita Mezcaleria. According…
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Booted From Restaurant Because “I Work for POTUS.”
Michael Candelori/Pacific Press/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday morning, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that she had been thrown out of a restaurant Friday night because “I work for @POTUS.” Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to…
Probable Cause Is Not Really a Huge Barrier For Police
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. You know what really gets me about the recent Supreme Court case over police access to cell phone location records? It’s not as if anyone was trying to take away their ability to get them. All anyone wanted was for police to get a warrant…
Is the BMW 750i a Threat to National Security?
BMW of North America Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. So Donald Trump is now publicly threatening to slap a 20 percent tariff on European cars in retaliation for Europe’s retaliation over Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum. I’m not going to bother writing yet again about how dumb this is.…