NATO Defense Spending Started Increasing Three Years Ago
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Susan Glasser has a long piece in Politico today about Donald Trump’s foreign policy, and it’s about what you’d expect: pretty much everyone overseas thinks Trump is dumb, ignorant, and vain. They’ve responded in various ways: opportunistically when Trump is on their side (Israel, Saudi…
Australian Ambassador Told FBI About Trump Campaign Connection With Russia
Australian ambassador to the United States Joe Hockey.Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the weekend the New York Times ran a story about the event that first sparked the FBI investigation of Donald Trump’s connection to Russia during the 2016 campaign. It turns out that campaign advisor…
Welfare “Reform” Might Be the Next Big Republican Push
Monica Winston adjusts to her tent in a tent city set up in San Diego. A Hepatitis A outbreak is one of the reasons the tent city was created.John Gastaldo via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In theory, the budget reconciliation process was intended to be used for passing…
Shhhh. The “Gene Silenced” Apple Is Coming.
A conventional apple vs. the Arctic Apple on the right.Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Arctic Golden apple, the first genetically modified apple available to consumers, is making its way to grocery store shelves. I’m an apple loyalist—I pack one as an after-lunch snack nearly every day…
Sick. Uninsured. And Begging the Internet for a Lifeline.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two days after receiving a diagnosis of stage 4 breast cancer, Marisa Rahdar had to figure out how to beg for her life. “I didn’t want to do it at all,” she recalls. Rahdar is a 32-year-old bartender from Detroit, and she has insurance. Her brother,…
The Heartwarming Stories Our Readers Told Us About Helping Total Strangers
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What does it take to make someone give? For our Jan/Feb magazine cover story, writer Stephen Marche delves into the world of crowdsourcing campaigns, where online platforms like GoFundMe and YouCaring have increasingly become lifelines for Americans who can’t afford to pay for healthcare.…