Sweet Sirens of Melancholy Folk
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Angel Olsen Phases Jagjaguwar Whether performing stark acoustic folk or giving her confessional songs a jolt of electricity, Angel Olsen always sounds like she’s one beat away from a complete meltdown. Intended to fill the gap between 2016’s triumphant My Woman and her next studio…
The 2017 Fire Season Has Been More Expensive Than Any on Record. And It’s Only Going to Get Worse.
Fire in Fallbrook, CASteven K. Doi/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The 2017 fire season was the nation’s costliest, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which houses the Forest Service.…
NRA Slams Former Prosecutor Doug Jones to Help Alleged Child Molester Roy Moore
Dan Anderson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Alabama Senate race has become a minefield for Republicans, dividing GOP senators who denounced Republican candidate and alleged child molester Roy Moore from the Republican National Committee and President Donald Trump, who are backing Moore. And the NRA, perhaps the biggest outside political…
Trent Franks Is Resigning Immediately For Reasons That Are Incredibly Creepy
Alex Edelman/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks announced he would resign in January. In a statement, the social-conservative warrior admitted that he had previously asked two female members of his staff to carry his child as surrogates. Frank conceded that this had made…
Conservatives Are Scared to Death of Robert Mueller
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Conservative calls to fire special prosecutor Robert Mueller are really getting crazy. The Fox News gang has gone gaga over the idea that Mueller is actually a liberal mole who’s hellbent on getting rid of Donald Trump. Republicans in Congress are going down the same…
6 Times Donald Trump Promised Not to Cut Medicare
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this week, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) made headlines when he suggested that after enacting a massive tax cut, Republicans would attempt to reign in deficits next year by cutting spending on entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid. “We’re going to have to…