See How Hard It Is for Sen. Bob Corker to Say Something Nice About the Woman Who Might Replace Him
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Retiring Tennessee Senator Bob Corker (R) has recently said glowing things about a candidate angling to fill his seat in the Senate this year. Unfortunately for the GOP, those nice things were all about the Democrat in the race, former governor Phil Bredesen. “He was…
Welcome to Agadez, America’s Latest Front in the War on Terror
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Say hello to Agadez: Agadez is 4,000 miles from Aghanistan, where the Global War on Terrorism began. It’s 2,500 miles from Iraq, our next destination in the war. It’s 2,000 miles from Syria and 1,500 miles from Benghazi. This is where we’re building a $110…
Mitt Romney’s Bid to Become Utah’s Next Senator Just Hit A Roadblock. Here’s What Happens Next.
U. S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney delivers his speech to the delegates at the Utah Republican Nominating Convention Saturday, April 21, 2018, at the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah. Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mitt Romney seemed like a shoo-in to…
Here’s an Adorable Video of a Baby Tree Kangaroo Taking Its First Hops
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here at Mother Jones, we get that Sundays are best spent relaxing, hanging out with friends and family, and avoiding the daily deluge of troubling news before a new work week begins. That’s where this viral video of a baby tree kangaroo comes in. Taronga Zoo,…
How a Skeptical High School Teacher Learned to Take Teenagers Seriously
Mingo Nesmith/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. During the first week of May 1963, more than 800 African-American students walked out of their classrooms and into the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, to call for an end to segregation. Despite frequent arrests and having dogs…
It’s Sunday Morning So Trump Is Tweet-Yelling at His TV Again. This Time About North Korea.
/The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump is at his Florida resort today, with the television tuned into “Fake News NBC”, where anchor Chuck Todd was previewing his show, Meet the Press. “There’s not many preconditions the United States is asking for so far in…