Ryan Zinke Fires Annoying Inspector General
Ryan Zinke, moral standard for our nation’s youth.Lou Maheda/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the latest from the most corrupt administration since … um, forever: At last count, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was the subject of 14 separate government investigations. (A new record!) But that number…
Getting the Kids to Vote
Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s something I don’t get. Maybe it’s because I’m dumb. Or maybe it’s because I live in California and I don’t see the same TV ads as everyone else. But here it is. We liberals spend a lot of time…
Donald Trump Takes on the Disgrace of Low Postal Rates
Ryzhy the cat, Russian Post’s Employee of the Year, poses on top of a postbox in Omsk.Feoktistov Dmitry/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump doesn’t like international postal rates: The Trump administration opened a new front in Washington’s economic conflict with China, starting a process Wednesday to…
“The President Called Him Lyin’ Ted”: Beto O’Rourke Shifts Into Attack Mode
Tom Reel/San Antonio Express-News/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a revealing stat about the Texas Senate race by way of the Dallas Morning News: Over the last month, 80 percent of the ads paid for by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and his two allied super-PACs were attacks on…
His Classmates Called Him the N-Word. What This 12-Year-Old Did Next Will Melt Your Heart.
Tarrick Walker with his parents, Darlene and Marcel. Courtesy of John Walker/Fresno Bee Tarrick Walker was playing basketball with a group of friends at his California school when the 12-year-old heard a group of seventh-graders say something. He stopped playing basketball and walked over. “What’s happening?” he asked the group. The response, as Walker recounted it to…
Big Tobacco Is Spending Millions to Defeat Obamacare at the Ballot Box
Mother Jones illustration; Philip Morris/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Big Tobacco has never really been known for truth in advertising. But as the midterm elections approach, industry heavyweights are throwing their resources behind a different kind of deceptive marketing campaign that could have serious consequences for public health. In…