Tom’s Kitchen: A Root Vegetable Salad to Last You Through the Week
Tom Philpott Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In my household, we’ve been relying more and more on batch cooking: devoting concentrated bursts of time to preparing a bunch of food that can be quickly turned into tasty, fuss-free meals throughout the week. But we’ve never really nailed batched salads. Sure,…
The Southern Border Is a Huge Money Pit
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the LA Times: Customs and Border Protection allocated $60.7 million to Accenture Federal Services, a management consulting firm, as part of a $297-million contract to recruit, vet and hire 7,500 border officers over five years, but the company has produced only 33 new hires…
Texas Is Looking for Fraudulent Immigrant Voters
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Our boys in Texas are busy on the voter fraud front: The Texas secretary of state’s office announced Friday it would send local election officials a list of 95,000 registered voters who the state says counties should consider checking to see whether they are U.S.…
Here’s How to Enact a Wealth Tax That the Supreme Court Won’t Kill
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I know that my posts about Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax have left you mesmerized and waiting for more. I’m here to help. Let’s suppose that a wealth tax is unconstitutional. Or more to the point, let’s say that we don’t want to risk a…
Trump’s Businesses Spent the Shutdown Firing Undocumented Workers
Andrew Milligan/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump lost his battle to shut down the government to get funding for a border wall demand on Friday. But tucked away during the longest shutdown in government history was a quiet plan throughout Trump’s resort businesses to begin firing undocumented…
Watch Roger Stone Chant “Lock Her Up”
Amy Beth Bennett/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, Roger Stone, the longtime Republican operative and friend of President Donald Trump, became the latest of the president’s associates to be indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The seven charges against Stone include making false statements, obstruction of an official…