6 Months Later, Parkland Teens Are Still Fighting Like Hell
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One week after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February, student survivors, outraged with Washington’s “thoughts and prayers,” took to CNN to declare politicians complicit in the deaths of their classmates. Just one month later, those same students organized nationwide “March for…
The Promise and Peril of Vaginal “Rejuvenation”
champja/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Erika Sherek was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, she knew the road to recovery would be long and painful. Surgery and radiation therapy saved her life, but the treatment fundamentally changed her body. Because she stopped producing estrogen, the female sex…
This Exceptional Novel Was Pecked Out on a Prison Typewriter by an Iraq Veteran Turned Bank Robber
A Medevac crew near Tikrit, Iraq, November 2005.Jacob Silberberg/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The author page reads simply, “Nico Walker lives in Kentucky. Cherry is his first novel.” Walker, 33, wanted it that way. What the bio doesn’t say is that his Kentucky abode is a federal prison. Or…
Puerto Rico Finally Admits It Wildly Underestimated Hurricane Maria Death Toll
Efrain Diaz Figueroa, right, walks by the remains of the house of his sister destroyed by Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto.Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This morning, the Puerto Rican government finally admitted that its official death toll for Hurricane Maria was a wild underestimate. A…
We Asked a California Water Expert to Make Sense of Donald Trump’s Moronic Wildfire Tweets
President Donald Trump at a White House “Made in America” showcase in July 2017 Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With California’s latest wildfires claiming a seventh victim Sunday, President Donald Trump has yet to tweet condolences to those affected by these catastrophic and all-too-familiar disasters. Several thousand…
NRA President Offered to Work With Accused Russian Spy’s Group in Moscow
The NRA’s David Keene with Butina in Moscow, Nov. 2013Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an investigation published on Thursday, Mother Jones documented the deep ties between the National Rifle Association and two Russians accused by the FBI of carrying out a malign political influence operation inside the United States: Maria…