These Musical Sisters Excel in New Albums
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Swearin’Fall Into the SunMerge WaxahatcheeGreat ThunderMerge Whether collaborating in the now-departed P.S. Eliot or working separately, sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield excel at urgent rock and roll combining garage-band scruffiness and confessional intimacy. On Fall Into the Sun, the third album by the rebooted Swearin’,…
Meet the Luckiest Democrat in the World
Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Eleven days after Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) was indicted for insider training last August, his long-shot opponent, a 43-year-old town supervisor from Niagara County named Nate McMurray, donned a black helmet, knee-pads, and an old pair of weathered jeans, and drove an old Cadillac into…
Make Democrats Great Again—Without Pandering to Trump’s Angry Base
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo said you campaign in poetry but govern in prose. He might have made a similar observation about losing a race: The morning after is swamped by emotion—heartbreak, exhaustion, and above all spasms of blame-mongering. But as the next election…
The Future of the Flint Water Crisis Is on the November Ballot
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been nearly five years since Flint’s emergency manager switched the city’s water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River, and lead leached off of old corrosive pipes and into the drinking water in homes all across the city. Two years later, in 2016, Michigan…
Trump Just Called a Bomb Recipient a “Crazed & Stumbling Lunatic”
Tom Steyer at a Need to Impeach Town Hall, May 30, 2018, in Minneapolis, MN. Jeff Wheeler/Star Tribune via AP) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just days after Tom Steyer, a prominent Democratic donor from California, received a bomb in the mail, President Donald Trump called him “a crazed &…
Blood, Guts, and Feminism: Six Righteous Horror Films to Stream this Halloween
Jennifer’s Body/IMDB Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s almost Halloween, which means it’s time to gut a pumpkin, hang up some cobwebs, and sit back and relax with a good blood-gushin’ horror flick. As we continue to endure what sometimes seems a real life horror film, Halloween is the perfect time…