Angry Uncle Review: The Civic Dinner
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After alienating half her family with a Facebook post following the 2016 election, Atlanta native Jenn Graham came up with the idea of the “Civic Dinner.” Here are the ground rules: A diverse group of six to 10 people is assembled. It can be friends,…
How to Cut Carbon—But Not Carbs—From Your Thanksgiving Dinner
Carl D. Walsh/Portland Press Herald/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. We challenged ourselves to come up with a Thanksgiving dinner that’s delicious (multiple test subjects confirmed this), simple (we made it in under two hours), cheap (we spent about $60 on…
Angry Uncle Review: Quarantine Your Angry Uncle
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Finally, here is the third in the New York Times trilogy of angry uncle advice. It’s from Lisa Lerer, the On Politics columnist: Don’t mention President TrumpA SurveyMonkey audience poll conducted last year found that Mr. Trump was the biggest culprit in hijacking Thanksgiving dinner,…
Cindy Hyde-Smith Finally Apologizes for “Public Hanging” Comment
Appointed U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., answers a question during a televised Mississippi U.S. Senate debate with Democrat Mike Espy in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. Rogelio V. Solis/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mississippi Republican Senate candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith apologized during a debate tonight for her “public hanging”…
A Question About All Those Angry Uncles
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Things are a little slow aside from the usual deluge of “Donald Trump is a moron” stories, and I’m not in the mood right now. So with Thanksgiving fast approaching, I have two questions for the hive mind: First, what’s with the angry uncles? Every…
Two Weeks Later, the Only Black Republican Woman in Congress Loses Her Seat
Rep. Mia Love speaks at the Commemoration of the Bicentennial of the Birth of Frederick Douglass, in Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol.Cheriss May/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The day after the midterm elections, President Donald Trump declared Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah) the loser in her…