10 Outrageous Dishes You Can Make From Old AOC Videos
Tom Williams/ZUMA So you have a few four-year-old videos of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lying around and it’s a Saturday and you need to cook up some traffic. What do you do? Thaw, chop, reheat, and repurpose them into 10 bite-sized stories, obviously. At least that’s how the New York Post spent its Saturday, pulling clips…
Latinos Are Super Green. When Will Environmental Groups Realize?
Jeff Malet/Newscom/Zuma Press This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Adelina walked briskly everywhere—and never more so than on her daily errands to the open-air mercado near my aunt’s house in Mexico City. My 8-year-old self would try to keep up, braids flying, as I watched our housekeeper’s shopping…
Bernie Just Won Nevada and People Are Losing Their Minds
Sen. Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire earlier this monthM. Scott Brauer for Mother Jones Sen. Bernie Sanders promised to to ignite a movement that would shake up the Democratic establishment, and after handily winning the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, he’s delivered. Sanders ran away with a victory in Nevada, winning 46 percent of the vote.…
What Is There For Republicans to Dislike About Donald Trump?
Oliver Contreras/CNP via ZUMA Suppose you’re talking to someone who says, sure, they hate Trump personally (the tweets, the rallies, etc.) but they like his policies. So they’re going to vote for Trump unless someone can convince them that his policies are bad or that Democratic policies are better. Let’s think about this. What are…
Democrats Have No Plan to Stop Bernie Sanders
Patrick Semansky/AP Before Amy Klobuchar spoke at the Las Vegas headquarters of the Culinary Union Local 226 on Tuesday, the union’s secretary treasurer, Geoconda Argüello-Kline, wanted to get a few things straight. If you’re a Democrat running in Nevada, Argüello-Kline and the powerful union she represents are the last people you want to piss off.…
Bernie Wins Nevada in a Landslide
Despite the opposition of the Culinary Workers Union, Bernie Sanders did pretty well with workers along the strip. Apparently they know a generous universal health care plan when they see one.Kevin Drum Only about 5 percent of the votes have been counted so far, but everyone has called the Nevada race for Bernie Sanders, who…