Dan Friedman

The End of a Neighborhood Restaurant Feels Like a Divorce ‘Orna and Ella’ is personal, for documentarian Tomer Heymann My grandfather and his business partner worked together for 50 happy years until their retirement. For most of the second half of the tw... See more

‘Exiles’ Is the Sci-Fi Novel I Need To Tell You About Mason Coile’s final novel is a taut, frightening read I missed reading Exiles by Mason Coile this year until I was given it as a holiday gift by my daughter. This horror/thriller about an expedition to... See more

Americans tend to associate whisky with figures like ‘Uncle Jesse,’ played by actor Denver Pyle, seen here at left with the cast of ‘The Dukes of Hazzard.’ Photo by Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty Images By Dan Friedman December 24, 2025 The Whiskey... See more

Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Six weeks ago, Jack Posobiec asked me to comment on whether I have a “creepy fetish for Asian women.” That was one of several false and wildly personal allegations that the far-right pundit and newly minted member ... See more

We Remain Largely Undefined ‘The Definitions’ turns amnesia into an unsettling mirror of our own era of disappearing history and manufactured truths. What are we without our memories? Who are we? And how can we be shaped? These are the questions implicitl... See more