Who the Hell Cares About Steve Bannon Anymore?
New Yorker editor David Remnick.Edu Bayer/EFE via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The New Yorker Festival, which will take place next month, will take place without Steve Bannon. After he was invited, other folks started dropping out in droves, and before long it looked as if it would be…
Today It Locks Up Immigrants. But CoreCivic’s Roots Lie in the Brutal Past of America’s Prisons.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2015, I spent four months working undercover as a guard at a medium-security Louisiana prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) with the aim of reporting on the conditions inside a private prison for Mother Jones. Shortly after I began, I was shown…
Ayanna Pressley Just Pulled Off a Historic Upset in Massachusetts
Ayanna Pressley for Congress/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrat Ayanna Pressley on Tuesday defeated 10-term incumbent Rep. Michael Capuano in one of the biggest upsets of this year’s primary season. With no Republican challenger, she will almost certainly go on to represent Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District, which is solidly blue…
Los Angeles Welcomes Its Scooter Overlords
This is a fancy concept scooter from MINI, shot against the LA skyline from Dodger Stadium. The yellow thing on the left is a car, soon to be obsolete.MINI USA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The city of Los Angeles has decided to approve the use of scooters within city…
I Can’t Stop Laughing at John Kelly’s Response to Bob Woodward’s Book
Ron Sachs/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The White House just sent out some responses to Bob Woodward’s Trump book. This one made me laugh out loud. From General Kelly: “The idea I ever called the President an idiot is not true. As I stated back in May and still…
Parkland Dad Escorted Out of Hearing After Trying to Shake Kavanaugh’s Hand
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fred Guttenberg—the outspoken gun control activist whose daughter was killed during the Parkland school shooting—was detained by Capitol police on Tuesday after he tried to shake Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s hand during a recess in Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation hearing. Guttenberg attended the hearing as…