Right-Wing Commentators Have Already Decided the Explosive Packages Are a False Flag
Drew Angerer/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shortly after news broke of explosive devices being sent to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, CNN, and others, far-right conspiracy site Infowars ventured a guess as to what happened. “Breaking! Alex Jones Predicted False Flag Attack to Blame Patriots,” read the top headline Wednesday morning…
Big Tobacco Is Spending an Insane Amount of Money to Fight Obamacare
A rally in August at the Montana state capitol for a ballot initiative to raise the state’s tobacco taxes in August.Matt Volz/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tobacco companies are continuing to pour money into a state ballot fight in Montana, waging a campaign that could result in near 100,000…
Teeny Tiny Libraries Are Sprouting Up All Over the World. This Guy Started it All.
Todd BolDavid Joles/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA Wire Todd Bol built the first Little Free Library, a front-yard bookshelf with a small door, using the wood from his old garage door. He hoped that the whimsical structure would build conversation and community by encouraging neighbors to share books that were dear to them. Soon, the idea spread, and…
Obama Is Doing the Political Rally Thing All Wrong
Doesn’t everyone look excited? Can you see the cheering? The sign waving? Do you believe that these people are going to leave this rally all charged up to tell their friends who to vote for?Larry Burton via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s Barack Obama yesterday: I believe in…
Ted Cruz, Who Joked Yesterday About Locking Up His Opponent, Renews Call for Civility in Politics
Daisuke Tomita /AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After another round of reports of explosives being sent to prominent Democratic figures, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz issued a statement condemning the attempted bombings and—as he has done with increasing frequency during his tight reelection campaign—calling for a de-escalation of political…
The NRA Keeps Writing Checks, But Some Republicans Aren’t Cashing Them
Protesters at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, DC, on March 24, 2018Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After the Parkland school shooting in February, student survivors issued an ultimatum to lawmakers: Stop accepting campaign contributions from the National Rifle Association, or we’ll vote you…