Happy Mother’s Day! Please Enjoy These Stories About Moms, Daughters, and Food
Aimee Lee Ball and her mother.Courtesy Aimee Lee Ball Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Recipes passed down through generations, Mother’s Day breakfasts in bed—these are some of the ways that food can bring a family together. But Aimee Lee Ball knows that there are other stories to be told: about…
A Trip Down Memory Lane
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Ask a Pundit: Why Does Scott Pruitt Still Have a Job?
Mother Jones; Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Martin Longman asks a provocative question: Why is Scott Pruitt untouchable? Trump has fired loads of other people, but despite Pruitt’s almost comical accumulation of embarrassing scandals, he has somehow managed to hang on. What’s the deal with this? How does…
Firm Tied to Russian Oligarch Says Michael Cohen Was a Disappointment
Michael Cohen in Trump Tower in December 2016Richard Drew/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. How much work did Michael Cohen do for the company affiliated with Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg that last year paid Cohen $500,000? Not much—at least according to two sources familiar with these payments. Days ago, Michael…
Ebola Is Back and Trump Just Made It Harder to Fight
An ambulance driver in protective clothing is disinfected with chlorine after returning from transporting a Ebola victim to a treatment center December 15, 2014 in Freetown, Sierra Leone.Martine Perret/Planet Pix/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ebola has returned just as the Trump administration has undermined the ability of the United States…
Chart of the Day: The Trump Plan for Prescription Drugs
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After griping for hours about President Trump’s upcoming speech on reducing prescription drug prices, you’d think I’d at least listen to the damn thing and then comment on it, wouldn’t you? I guess so. That would be the fair thing to do. But here’s the…