Congress Timidly Complains About the War in Yemen
Hani Al-Ansi/DPA via ZUMA I failed to note this a couple of days ago, but it’s worth posting about: In a rare exercise of its war-making role, the House of Representatives on Monday overwhelmingly passed a resolution explicitly stating that U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its war in Yemen is not authorized under…
Finally, Someone Explains Just What In The Hell We’re Supposed To Do With Leeks
Recipes from “David Tanis Market Kitchen”Evan Sung Evan Sung“Don’t under-cook them—they don’t taste good if they’re crunchy,” Tanis says. But otherwise, he argues, leeks are not difficult to prepare. Cooking them in a pan with a pat of butter can result in something “absolutely delicious that you can kind of put anywhere”—in omelettes, or cradling…
Did You Talk Politics at Thanksgiving? We Want to Hear About It.
Mother Jones illustration The season of gathering and feasting is upon us. If that means you’ll be eating with family this year, you might be hyper aware that sharing DNA doesn’t necessarily mean sharing the same opinions about things—like politics. With so much happening in the news these days, you may be dreading the more prickly…
Behold the Latest In Management Consultant BS for the State Department
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been busily decimating the State Department despite the fact that both Democrats and Republicans want the department staffed at roughly the same level as last year. But will Congress ever do anything about this? Apparently they’re getting close, and Politico’s Nahal Toosi reports that even Sen. Bob Corker is…
Liberalism Demands That We Treat People Fairly, Even When It’s Hard
After going back and forth a bit about Al Franken’s sexual misconduct—he was a comedian at the time and his victim has accepted his apology, but then again, forgiving him could derail the movement to hold sexual predators accountable—Michelle Goldberg concludes that Franken should resign: It’s not worth it. The question isn’t about what’s fair…
Did President Trump Approve a Deal That Allowed Hundreds of ISIS Fighters to Escape Raqqa?
Morukc Umnaber/DPA via ZUMA President Trump has insisted for a long time that his attitude toward ISIS will be nothing like President Obama’s. There will be no compromise, no pragmatism, no half measures. He will destroy them to the last man and completely annihilate their organization. That makes it odd that this deeply-reported BBC story…