These Companies Are Done With the NRA
Shots/Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Being a member of the National Rifle Association has its perks, many of which are altogether unrelated to guns: Members enjoy discounts on rental cars, hotel rooms, wine, and even health and life insurance. Or that was the case until Thursday. Just more than one week…
The College Star Who Beat the NCAA in Court Isn’t Done Yet
Ed O’Bannon cuts down the net in 1995 after UCLA defeated Arkansas in the national championship.Icon Sportswire via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Long after the end of a storied college basketball career and a short stint in the NBA, Ed O’Bannon saw a version of his former self…
This Year’s Best Movies Are All Secretly About Food
Elisa, played by Sally Hawkins, woos her fish-man friend with eggs in The Shape of Water. Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the film Phantom Thread—up for six Oscars, including Best Picture—director Paul Thomas Anderson tells the twisted mid-century love story of a laser-focused…
A Grand Jury Just Indicted Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort on New Charges
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Friday isn’t over yet. BREAKING: A federal Grand Jury has returned a new superseding indictment in the Manafort case. The indictment says that Manafort, “secretly retained a group of former senior European politicians to take positions favorable to Ukraine, including by lobbying in the United…
We Asked Young Conservatives, “How Would You Stop Gun Violence?” Their Answers Were Amazing.
Cade Plotts, center, of Ohio University, listens to President Trump address the Conservative Political Action Conference via video at the Gaylord National Resort.Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, the message from students around America rang loud and clear: Lawmakers must address gun control. Students…
Research Has Found A Vaccine For BS
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The other day I was talking to someone I love when suddenly, a gulf opened up between my reality and hers. She was, I realized, a vaccine skeptic. Not an active denier, really—just, as she put it, someone who “doesn’t know where the…