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The thing about elections is there is only so much you can do about them. You can vote, you can phone bank, you can remind everyone you know that a majority of Americans don’t want abortion bans, and that Medicare paying for home health care is a very good idea. And then, you can basically wait. …
Michael De Los Santos started to suspect this was going to be a big deal when he saw a bunch of guys in suits and sunglasses eating at his restaurant, Mike D’s BBQ in Durham, North Carolina, earlier that week. “My staff was like, Mike, I think FBI agents are here,” he says. He had been contacted by …
As the presidential campaign heats up ahead of the November election, both Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump are feverishly rolling out policy proposals that will hopefully win them votes. This week brought a rare moment of political unity among the two …
My first exposure to the women’s suffrage movement was through the character of Mrs. Banks in the movie Mary Poppins. Mrs. Banks makes her grand entrance wearing a “Votes for Women” sash, singing about how she and her sister suffragettes are throwing off the shackles of women’s oppression. But it …
Yesterday, convicted felon and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attempted to prove that he, a disgraced billionaire, can relate to the average American. He put on an apron, walked into the back of a McDonald’s in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, and made fries. Then, he served them to …
Thanksgiving means turkey, the Fourth of July equals hot dogs and burgers, and Christmas brings ham, so why doesn’t America have a specific food to eat on Election Day? Perhaps because we’re now too mired in disgust and/or despair by the time a presidential election rolls around every four years to …
If you’re in St. Louis when a craving for ice cream hits, make your way to Sugarwitch. The shop, set in a historic former bakery in South City, provides a range of ice cream sandwiches named after famed witches of literature and lore: The Ursula has rainbow-sprinkled vanilla between salted brownies, …
A few lines stood out from the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump last night — one of them being former President Trump’s bizarre proclamation that: “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of …
On August 6, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris chose Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate. Now in his second term, Walz has made food a central part of his gubernatorial platform, including the passage of a landmark 2023 bill that made free lunch at school available to all …
We’ve made the claim before at this publication that “maybe politicians should just stay away from food.” Too often, they fumble; instead of using food to convey relatability and authenticity, they highlight the gap between us (normal people with correct opinions on how to eat a steak) and them …
