Why Kamala Harris Is Visiting a Part of Texas Candidates Often Ignore
Paul Kitagaki Jr./ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Joaquin Castro called it on Sunday. “If there’s one place in Texas” that Joe Biden should visit in the campaign’s final days, the San Antonio Democratic congressman tweeted, “it’s the Rio Grande Valley.” If…
3 Songs to Celebrate Clifford Brown’s 90th Birthday
Trumpeter Clifford Brown and saxophonist Lou Donaldson in 1955Metronome/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.It’s hard to believe that Clifford Brown lived just 25 years. In his short run, he remade American music more times, and more lastingly, than almost all trumpeters of…
It’s a Scary Time Nationally for Abortion Rights. Activists Hope Tuesday Brings Big Local Victories.
Demonstrators participate in a rally for Planned Parenthood at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, in April 2017. Jay Janner/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.If you support access to abortion, you’re probably pretty freaked out about Amy Coney Barrett joining the nation’s highest…
Trump Gutted Post-2008 Financial Safeguards. Can We Avert Another Crash?
Evan Vucci/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.A year into his presidency, Donald Trump stood in the Roosevelt Room of the White House next to towering stacks of white paper wrapped in a bright red ribbon. Flanked by Cabinet members, he explained that…
Why a Second Trump Term Would Be Even Worse for Immigrants
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.When the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, published its review of all the immigration changes made by the Trump administration, it needed 126 pages to do the job. What unites the hundreds of executive orders, rules, and memos…
Trump Admitted Years Ago to a “Little Conflict of Interest” in Turkey. It’s Not So Little.
President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after a Nov. 13, 2019, news conference at the White House.Evan Vucci/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In December 2015, Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate, made a casual admission. “I have a little…