States Are Going to Extraordinary Lengths to Keep Death Penalty Drugs Top Secret
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One August afternoon, Wendy Kelley, the director of the Arkansas Department of Corrections, picked up 40 vials of a controversial sedative used in prisons across the country to put inmates to death. The details of where she picked the vials up, and who…
Dreaming of a White Christmas? America’s 6 Craziest Holiday Snowstorms.
Larry Levine/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Newsweek and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Snow can turn Christmastime into the magical, winter holiday you might be hoping for. But so far this week, it appears much of the country will miss a white…
This Rolling Stones Album Is Rough Around the Edges in the Best Way
The Rolling Stones on a rooftop, 17th June 1964. Left to right: Brian Jones (1942 – 1969), Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts.Archive Photos/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Album Review The Rolling StonesOn AirPolydor The Rolling Stones came full circle in 2016, returning to their blues…
A Tribute to My Improbable Tea Party Friend
Robin Stublen, on his birthday last year, before he was diagnosed with cancer.Courtesy of the Stublen family Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On paper, Robin Stublen and I should never have been friends. He was a Donald Trump-supporting self-identified redneck who hated Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, thought liberals were…
Christmas Eve in Southern California
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Your Periodic Reminder About the Republican Corporate Tax Cut of 2017
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Under the new Republican tax law, big corporations will get a permanent tax cut of 14 percentage points. You will get a tax cut of about 1 percentage point—until it expires, that is, at which point your taxes will be…