North Carolina’s Unsettled Congressional Race Is an Absolute Mess
Republican candidate Mark Harris answers questions at a news conference ON Nov. 7, 2018.David T. Foster Iii/Charlotte Observer/TNS/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On January 3, 40 freshman Democrats will be sworn in, officially flipping the House from red to blue. But the seat the 9th Congressional District in North…
In 2018, Americans Took a Page From the Russian Disinformation Playbook
Getty Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the week leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, two massive stories dominated the news: the migrant caravan approaching the southern US border and pipe bombs mailed to major liberal figures. As the stories spread online, so did a constellation of hoaxes and…
How Donald Trump Has Made Christmas With Relatives Even Worse
AntonioGuillem/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s the time of year when families mingle, for all that entails, so we reached out to readers to ask how political differences among relatives have affected their holidays. Specifically, we asked whether anyone had kept quiet about their midterm votes in order to…
Floridians Voted to Restore Ex-Felons’ Voting Rights. But the Legislature Has a History of Ignoring Voters.
Margaret Butler sets up voting booths ahead of Election Day at the First United Methodist Church on August 27, 2018. Octavio Jones/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In November, more than 64 percent of Florida voters chose to amend the state constitution to restore voting rights to ex-felons…
Three Women Accused a Tennessee Legislator of Sexual Assault. He Was Still Reelected in a Landslide.
Mother Jones illustration; Mark Humphrey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this year, a mere five months after the #MeToo reckoning first began, a local Tennessee television station dropped what should have been a bombshell investigation: Three women were accusing state Rep. David Byrd of sexually assaulting them when they were minors in the 1980s, using his…
Investigation Details How Gov.-Elect Brian Kemp’s Staff Smeared Georgia Democrats Days Before His Election
John Bazemore/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Georgia’s Gov.-elect Brian Kemp survived a bruising race against Stacey Abrams in November, narrowly avoiding becoming the first Republican to lose a statewide election in more than a decade. But it turns out he won after throwing a big sucker punch, according to…