Private Equity Ghouls Just Murdered a Good Website
While the world breathlessly waits, watches, and places bets on the odds of impeachment (71 percent probability at last check), there’s one fewer national news site to name names and expose the gathering excrement oozing from President Donald Trump’s octopuslike administration. Splinter, the site formerly known as Fusion and staffed by some of the best…
A Homeless Singer’s Viral Video Lands Her an Offer From a Grammy-Nominated Producer
Screenshot of video from LAPDHQ/Twitter Welcome to Recharge, a weekly newsletter full of stories that will energize your inner hellraiser. See more editions and sign up here. Emily Zamourka says she learned to sing by imitating opera performers on TV while growing up in Russia. Decades later, with her belongings beside her, she began singing…
What Cable News Anchors Get Right—And Wrong—About Real-Time Fact-Checking
Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty We live in an age where disinformation is a serious and dangerous threat to our democracy. And that has never been more apparent than in the past couple of weeks, when the details of a phone call between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—in which Trump pressured the Ukrainian leader…
Columnist at the Center of Ukraine Scandal Joins Fox News
Conservative columnist John Solomon appearing on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on August 20, 2019.Fox News For months, opinion columnist John Solomon has played a central role in stoking right-wing conspiracies about Ukraine’s role in the 2016 election and Joe Biden’s involvement with the country as vice president. Now, Solomon is making his alliance with…
Death or the End of a Relationship? To Nakaya They’re One and the Same
Enmi Yang Nakaya insists she isn’t a sad person. “I have my dark days,” says the LA-born and Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter, “but I’m a very social, outgoing person.” Her music is another matter. Sadness suffuses her songs. Like anything from Sufjan Stevens, Mitski, or Phoebe Bridgers (to name a few), Nakaya’s songs engulf you in a…
On Ukraine, It’s Hard to Tell Fox News and 4Chan Apart
Atilgan Ozdil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images, edited by Mother Jones Last week, as President Donald Trump was battered by headlines detailing a whistleblower allegation that he sought Ukrainian interference in the 2020 election, right-wing media outlets rallied to support him by pumping out stories downplaying the revelations. “Democrats Wrote to Ukraine in May 2018, Demanding It Investigate…