The College Star Who Beat the NCAA in Court Isn’t Done Yet
Ed O’Bannon cuts down the net in 1995 after UCLA defeated Arkansas in the national championship.Icon Sportswire via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Long after the end of a storied college basketball career and a short stint in the NBA, Ed O’Bannon saw a version of his former self…
This Year’s Best Movies Are All Secretly About Food
Elisa, played by Sally Hawkins, woos her fish-man friend with eggs in The Shape of Water. Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the film Phantom Thread—up for six Oscars, including Best Picture—director Paul Thomas Anderson tells the twisted mid-century love story of a laser-focused…
Research Has Found A Vaccine For BS
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The other day I was talking to someone I love when suddenly, a gulf opened up between my reality and hers. She was, I realized, a vaccine skeptic. Not an active denier, really—just, as she put it, someone who “doesn’t know where the…
This Parkland Shooting Survivor Was the Third in Her Family to Escape a Gun Attack
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Curtosy of the Tylim family; Mother JonesDani Tylim was taking a math test at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 when the fire alarm started ringing. Confused, the 18-year-old junior evacuated to a field by the school’s tennis courts. That’s when she heard the gunshots. “I thought…
Stephen Colbert Praises the Young Survivors of the Parkland Shooting Demanding Action
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Stephen Colbert returned to the “Late Show” for the first time since last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida to praise the impassioned young survivors who have risen in the wake of the horrific tragedy to demand action from lawmakers. “I hope these…
A Convicted Sex Offender Was the Face of a New Trump Dating Site
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new dating site intended for Trump-admirers seeking other Trump-admirers for romance, Trump.Dating, up until the last few days featured the image of a convicted sex offender, Barrett Riddleberger, alongside his wife Jodi on its homepage, wearing his-and-hers hats reading “Trump” and “Make America Great…