The Best Cookbooks (and Instant Pot Guides) of 2018
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Instant Pot has emerged in recent years as a multi-use sensation: a plug-in countertop appliance that does everything from slowly incubating yogurt to quickly turning unsoaked beans tender to scrubbing the kitchen floor. (Okay, not the latter.) After getting one a year ago and…
How Donald Trump Has Made Christmas With Relatives Even Worse
AntonioGuillem/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s the time of year when families mingle, for all that entails, so we reached out to readers to ask how political differences among relatives have affected their holidays. Specifically, we asked whether anyone had kept quiet about their midterm votes in order to…
Facebook Let These Misleading Advertisers Promote the Border Wall Fundraiser
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook users are running sponsored political advertisements promoting the crowdfunding campaign for Trump’s border wall under misleading “Paid for by” labels. Earlier this year, Facebook similarly came under fire for the “Paid for by” labels on its political ads. According to Facebook’s own policies, advertisers…
The Trump Shutdown Has Begun
Merry Christmas.Mother Jones illustration; Ralf Hirschberger/dpa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After an 11th-hour government-funding agreement collapsed amid President Donald Trump’s demands for a border wall, the government partially shut down at midnight. Senate adjourns Shutdown at midnight is OFFICIAL — Burgess Everett (@burgessev) December 22, 2018 Last week, Trump…
Supreme Court Blocks Asylum Ban in a Rebuke to Trump
Chief Justice John RobertsJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s request to let it immediately ban people from receiving asylum if they cross the border between official ports of entry. Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the court’s four liberal justices on…
Why Trump’s Latest Asylum Decision Will Put Migrants’ Lives in Danger
Migrants wait to eat at a temporary shelter near the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, in November.John Moore/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced that the Trump administration will force asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their applications for protection in the United…