“Town Burned Down” Is a Searing Triumph
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Adam’s House CatTown Burned DownATO “Town Burned Down” is the great lost Drive-By Truckers album—sort of. The first band of DBT principals Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley recorded their sole album in 1990, only to see it go unreleased at the time. Adam’s House Cat…
Defiant Kavanaugh Blasts Allegations as “Smear” Campaigns
Erin Scott/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a fiery letter addressed to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Brett Kavanaugh on Monday forcefully rejected the sexual assault allegations that have been leveled against him, claiming that the accusations were part of a political effort aimed to destroy his nomination…
A Leaked White House Memo Reveals Trump’s Plan For Going After Google and Facebook
Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to meet with state attorneys general on Tuesday to reportedly discuss potential anti-trust actions against tech companies. While little has been publicly released about the meeting, a draft of a White House memo obtained…
Rumor Control Update: Rosenstein Not Fired or Resigning After All
Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones’ investigative journalism? We’re a nonprofit (so it’s tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. We noticed you have an ad blocker on. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones’ investigative journalism?
How the Trumpish Right Exploits YouTube to Seduce Young Voters
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few days ago Rebecca Lewis released a report about something she calls the “Alternative Influence Network,” which is mostly based on YouTube. Why YouTube? As Ezra Klein says in a review of Lewis’s study: If you’re over 30 and don’t use YouTube much, it’s…
Kavanaugh Faces a New Accuser
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces one or more new accusations of sexual misconduct. Senate Democrats are investigating a new allegation against Kavanaugh dating to the 1983-84 academic year, when Kavanaugh was a college freshman, according to a New Yorker story published late Sunday evening. “Another serious,…