Treasury Department Study: White People Get 90 Percent of the Benefits of Many Tax Breaks
Patrick Sison/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One of the little-noticed moves by President Biden in his first days in office was an executive order that required federal agencies to examine their policies and programs to identify whether and how they perpetuate barriers to…
Reports: Ron Klain Is Expected to Leave White House Post
White House chief of staff Ron Klain.Andrew Harnik/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A few weeks ago, I was having lunch with a friend who is a former cop and a MAGA-leaning conservative. We were arguing about politics as usual, when he went…
Mike Pence Is Courting Controversial Anti-Gay Pastors
Mike Pence greets John Hagee in 2019.Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When he ran for president in 2008, the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) denounced the views of Texas evangelical minister John Hagee as “crazy and unacceptable” and rejected his endorsement for…
“We Will Continue to March Until Abortion Is Unthinkable.”
Anti-abortion supporters gather on the National Mall in Washington, DC ahead of the March for Life on January 20th, 2023.Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, for the 50th year in a row, tens of thousands of anti-abortion…
A Federal Judge Fined Trump and His Lawyer Nearly $1 Million
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump is not afraid to file a lawsuit, and he certainly no stranger to being sued himself. Once in court, Trump and his attorneys are prodigious filers of complaints, appeals, and protests. In fact,…
How Kevin McCarthy Became the Last “Young Gun” Standing
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the summer of 2011, as Washington deadlocked over the once routine task of raising the nation’s debt ceiling, Kevin McCarthy, then the House GOP whip, decided to mix things up. At a closed-door caucus meeting, the California Republican…