Let Us All Unite in Praise of Better French Fries
Reporters via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Longtime readers may remember my unhappiness about modern french fries cooked in vegetable oil. Back in the day, fries were cooked in beef tallow or something similar, and they tasted great! Today everybody is afraid a bit of cow fat is going…
The Heartwarming Messages Shared Between the Stranded Thai Boys and Their Parents
A boy smiles as a Thai Navy SEAL medic helps injured children inside a cave in northern Thailand, where a group of boys and their soccer coach were trapped.Royal Thai Navy Facebook Page/AP The kids wrote about their favorite meals, their school obligations, and helping their parents at the store. The families told them they…
While America Sleeps: Trump’s Treachery and the Russia Scandal
Donald Trump meets with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Listen to David discuss the president’s cover-up of the Russia scandal on the Mother Jones Podcast. In 1938, Winston Churchill published a collection of his speeches warning that his homeland was not…
Trump Opens NATO Summit by Accusing Germany of Being “Totally Controlled by Russia”
Bernd Von Jutrczenka/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. German Chancellor Angela Merkel hit back at President Donald Trump after he accused Germany of being “totally controlled by Russia”‘ and urged allies to look into the issue during a rant at the outset of this week’s NATO summit in Brussels. “I’ve…
Inside the Radical, Uncomfortable Movement to Reform White Supremacists
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On July 4, 2013, one of Shane Johnson’s pals pushed through the front door of his trailer and announced that “a bunch of black guys” had just “said some shit to him.” Johnson was small and lithe, tattooed from neck to toe with swastikas, and…
Nevada Is About to Kill an Inmate Using a Drug Mix That’s Never Been Tried Before
Hailshadow/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, 10:45 a.m.: Alvogen, the company from which Nevada obtained midazolam, filed a lawsuit against the state Tuesday afternoon*. The company is alleging that despite a clear warning that its product could not be used in executions, Nevada purchased the drugs by “subterfuge.” The…