Spam Gumbo, Tacos—Even Cheesecake: My Visit to a Festival Saluting America’s Favorite Canned Meat
Winners of the Isleton Spam Festival take hope the “Spamley Cup.”Dave Gilson Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the winter of 1996, a flood hit Isleton, California. As residents returned to their homes and went through their kitchens, they found that the paper labels on their canned foods had disintegrated.…
“Why the Hell Are We Standing Down?”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is the second of two excerpts adapted from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones.…
The Harrowing True Story of How Vladimir Putin Blew Off Donald Trump
The king and queen of the Netherlands meet with Vladimir Putin the day before the Miss Universe pageant in 2013. Putin sure is short, isn’t he? And King Willem-Alexander looks really thrilled to be meeting him, doesn’t he?Mikhail Klimentyev/ITAR-TASS/ZUMAPRESS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian Roulette, by David Corn and…
Kim Jong Un Finally Gets His Wish
Good old smilin’ Kim, always ready for a beer with the president of the United States.Yonhap News/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I must have taken a really long nap this afternoon. Apparently we’ve been holding talks with North Korea for the past few years and now President…
Ryan Zinke Is Getting New Doors
Artist’s conception of new doors for the Interior Department building. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember that “big beautiful door” that Donald Trump promised for his border wall? I think we may have found it: The Interior Department is spending nearly $139,000 to upgrade three sets of double doors in…
Donald Trump Finally Makes His Stupid Tariff Announcement
Reporters via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While I was at lunch Donald Trump finally made his big tariff announcement: After a week of furious lobbying and a burst of last-minute internal debates and confusion, Mr. Trump agreed to exempt, for now, Canada and Mexico and held out the…