Trump Just Praised an NRA Official With a Long History of Appalling Statements
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, right, and executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action Chris Cox with President Donald Trump in April.Curtis Compton/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A week after the Parkland school shooting left 17 people dead, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to praise National Rifle…
In an Unusual Development, a Campus Rapist Is Set to Go to Prison
Ed Treleven/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, the day before he turned 22, former University of Wisconsin-Madison student Alec Cook went before a judge in Dane County criminal court and put an end to a major case of campus serial rape, pleading guilty to sexually assaulting three female classmates, and suffocating or…
Obama Praises Young Activists Demanding Gun Control After Florida
Phil Velasquez/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A day after thousands of students across the country participated in walk-outs to protest gun violence, former President Barack Obama on Thursday offered his support to the “fearless students” demanding lawmakers take action in response to the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida.…
Teenagers Pour Into the Streets Calling for Gun Control After Parkland Shooting
Students call for gun control outside the White House on Wednesday. Kara Voght/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Busloads of teenagers arrived in Tallahassee overnight to continue their calls for gun control hundreds of miles from the site of a mass shooting that left 17 dead and 14 others injured at a…
The 2018 Election Started Tuesday With One Jaw-Dropping Stat
Fernando Cortes/Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The 2018 election officially began on Tuesday with the first day of early voting ahead of Texas’ March 6th primaries. Evidently, a lot of people got the message. In Harris County, which includes Houston and is the state’s largest population center, Republican turnout…
Sorry, But Here’s Yet Another Nutball Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just in case you don’t know, the latest right-wing nutball conspiracy theory is that David Hogg, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is not what he seems: In certain right-wing corners of the web — and, increasingly, from more mainstream voices like Rush…