It’s Just Another Lazy Sunday in Bizarro World
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I was out all last night and got home around 7 am. I immediately rolled into bed and then woke up at the crack of lunchtime. I took a shower, went out for lunch, got my car washed, and then picked up…
Hillary Clinton Talks About Trump, Facts, and Fascism in Yale Speech
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today, Hillary Clinton delivered Yale University’s annual Class Day speech, urging the Class of ’18 to keep organizing to roll back the “full-fledged crisis in our democracy.” But before she got serious, she kicked things off with a dig at a scandal-embroiled political adversary who…
Gun Maker Complains That People Are Saying Mean Things About Its Products on Social Media
High school students protest outside the White House after the Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas.Erin Scott/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. People are saying mean things about guns—and guns can’t defend themselves. That’s the message from Vista Outdoor, the $2.3 billion holding company that owns Savage Arms, one…
Trump’s Latest Tweet Just Crossed Another Bright Line
Kevin Dietsch/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Still stewing from a flurry of new reports about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into his 2016 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump demanded Sunday that the Department of Justice investigate itself: I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department…
Texas’ Lieutenant Governor Uncovers the Cause of Mass Shootings: Abortion
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What’s to blame for the recent spate of mass shootings? Ask an expert and they might point you to the persistent availability of high-powered weaponry, or, as my colleague Mark Follmnan has reported, even the media coverage of the shootings themselves. Domestic abuse and toxic…
Now Trump Is Coming For Your Beer
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since its emergence in 1935, the aluminum beer can has been a fixture on the US drinking scene. About half of packaged beer of the country’s two dominant mega-brewers—AB InBev (maker of Budweiser) and MillerCoors—comes in cans. And now their fast-growing craft competitors have discovered the…