Love From Lubbock: The Texas City Shines in These Two Albums
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Joe ElyFull Circle: The Lubbock TapesRack ‘Em Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale GilmoreDowney to LubbockYep Roc Back in the early 70s, The Flatlanders were alt-country before the term existed, offering a rougher, dustier alternative to the polished entertainment emanating from Nashville at the time. The…
Prisoners Are Getting Creative to Pull Off a Massive Strike This Week
Mother Jones illustration; Getty; incarceratedworkers.org Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One recent afternoon in a pizzeria in Oakland, California, Cole Dorsey pulls out an LG flip phone to explain how he’s helping organize a strike in the country’s harshest workplace. The phone is small and black, with a busted interior screen.…
Female Candidates May Have an Edge in Battleground Elections
UNITED STATES – JULY 4: Jennifer Wexton walks with supporters in Leesburg, Va., as she participates in the Leesburg Independence Day Parade on July 4, 2018. Wexton is challenging incumbent Republican Barbara Comstock for Virginia’s 10th Congressional district seat. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free…
Most Republicans Have Electoral Amnesia About Their Tax Bill—But Not the Rich Ones
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Republican tax cut may not be very popular with all the working schmoes who were conned into supporting it, but it sure is popular with zillionaires. And they’re planning to say “Thanks!” this election season: Billionaires and corporations that reaped millions of dollars in…
“Truth Isn’t Truth” and Other Bits of Wisdom from Rudy Giuliani
July 18, 2016 – Cleveland, Ohio, U.S – Former Mayor of New York CIty, Rudolph (Rudy) Giuliani addresses the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Arena in Cleveland, Ohio Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of President Trump’s lawyers, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, appeared on…
Trump Attacks 2 Favorite Targets in Sunday Morning Tweetstorm
August 17, 2018 – Washington, District of Columbia, U.S. – President Donald J. Trump meets reporters during an impromptu press availability on the South Lawn of the White House. Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump took some time off from golfing at his…