Brash, Swashbuckling, and Humane—Remembering Anthony Bourdain
Mother Jones; Ian West/PA Wire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Anthony Bourdain is dead at 61. His body was found this morning in a hotel room in France, the country that inspired his work as a chef. He ended his life where he has lived it for so many years—on the…
This South Carolina Primary Will Test Whether Democrats Are Willing to Overlook Domestic Violence
Mother Jones illustration; Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the past year, Archie Parnell, a former Goldman Sachs managing director and former tax attorney for ExxonMobil, has been among the candidates the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee viewed as contenders to fulfill their dreams of a Blue Wave in the 2018…
A Private Prison Company Gave 1,300 Recordings of Confidential Inmate Phone Calls to Prosecutors
Thinkstock/ Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than 1300 private conversations between a private prison’s inmates and their lawyers were recorded according to information in a new lawsuit against CoreCivic, the private company running the facility, and its technology provider Securus Technologies. Numerous charges and convictions against the inmates…
She Was Enslaved by Salvadoran Guerrillas. US Judges Say That Makes Her Ineligible for Asylum.
A man wears a shirt with the Spanish initials of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a left-wing guerrilla group, in San Salvador in 1989.Mario Ruiz/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. She watched as Salvadoran guerrillas made her husband dig his own grave and then murdered him. She was forced to cook,…
The Real Russia Scandal Is Hiding in Plain Sight. Yet Trump May Get Away With It.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this week, I wrote a piece, “Donald Trump Is Getting Away With the Biggest Scandal in American History,” that struck a chord with a lot of people. And I’ve been thinking a lot about where we go from here, because demonstrating that Trump is…
Why the Trump Administration is Treating Immigration Detainees Like Criminals
Suspected illegal border crossers at Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, in 2012. Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an unexpected and unusual move, Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it plans to transfer 1,600 of its detainees to federal prisons. The agency says a surge…