Andrew McCabe’s GoFundMe Just Broke $400,000
Cheriss May/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. An online fundraiser that was launched Thursday to help cover former deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s legal fees has surpassed $400,000, shattering the legal defense fund’s original goal of raising $150,000. And it’s only Friday. The 21-year FBI veteran was fired by the…
We Obtained Cambridge Analytica’s Post-Election Pitch to Potential Corporate Clients
Alex Milan Tracy/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the wake of Donald Trump’s shock victory in 2016, Cambridge Analytica, the secretive data analytics firm that worked for the Trump campaign and is now ensnared in an international controversy, set out to capitalize on its connection to the new…
“You Need to Calm Down” and Other Degrading B.S. Women Hear from Doctors
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the early 1960s, researchers noticed that women seemed to have lower rates of heart disease than men—but only until menopause, when women’s estrogen levels dropped. At that point, their levels were similar. To get to the bottom of the discrepancy, they set up the first-ever…
Listen to a Powerful Reminder of Why Martin Luther King Still Matters
Gabourey Sidibe reads “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence” in The Radical King.Audible Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. April 4th marks 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. For nearly as long, there’s been a struggle to claw back King’s legacy from an effort…
California Has a Controversial Plan to Solve Its Housing Crisis. Drivers Aren’t Going to Like It.
tommaso79/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The San Francisco-Bay Area did a remarkable job of rebounding from the 2008 Recession: The region has since added 640,000 new jobs, and its unemployment rate hovers around three percent. But as you’ve probably heard, the area’s housing supply hasn’t kept up with its population growth,…
Republicans in Congress Are So Eager to Slash Food Stamps, They’re About to Make a Big Mistake
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The ultraconservative wing of the US House Republicans regards federal anti-hunger initiatives like a typical first-grader reacts to spinach: with loathing and disgust. But their latest effort to slash the biggest one of all, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), once known as food stamps, might…