Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Donald Trump Is Most Definitely a Racist
Courtesy of CBS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper Sunday evening, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 29-year-old Democratic Socialist from New York who, along with all other new members of Congress, was sworn in on January 3, said President Donald Trump is a racist, “no question.” Cooper…
This Deep-Red State Decided to Make a Serious Investment in Preschools. It’s Paying Off Big-Time.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Alabama state senator Trip Pittman had always sort of questioned whether nursery schools were worth the investment. Pittman, a conservative Republican, figured the kinds of things you’re supposed to learn before kindergarten—washing your hands, tying your shoes, minding your manners—might best be taught by parents…
Anxiety Is Like Having an “Improv Group in Your Brain”
Shaughn & John Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Aparna Nancherla is a comedian who also happens to be an introvert grappling with depression: “A lot of people have a fear of missing out,” she jokes. “I have a fear of missing in.” Petite and in her mid-30s, she has been…
The Supreme Court Said No More Life Without Parole for Kids. Why Is Antonio Espree One of the Few to Get Out of Prison?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the morning of his 47th birthday, his first outside prison in three decades, Antonio Espree wakes up around 5 a.m. It’s a cool February day in Phoenix, still dark outside, and his cousin Marlon Bailey is asleep on a bed about an arm’s reach…
These Haunting Photos Show the Pain of Native Children Ripped From Their Parents
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The truth revealed itself slowly but insistently. In 2015, photographer Daniella Zalcman had traveled to Canada to document a public health crisis among the country’s indigenous people, who had one of the world’s fastest-growing rates of HIV infection. As she interviewed subjects in Saskatchewan, Ontario,…
This Supreme Court Murder Case Could Completely Change Tribal Sovereignty in Oklahoma
Mother Jones illustration; Oklahoma Department of Corrections/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Patrick Murphy didn’t say he was innocent. In the summer of 1999, when Murphy, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of eastern Oklahoma, killed his girlfriend’s ex-lover, also a Creek member, slashing his throat and cutting off his…