Is This a Coup? We Asked a Variety of Humane, Thoughtful People and Also Henry Kissinger
Trump salutes at a Veterans Day event at Arlington National Cemetery.Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Wire Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.President Donald Trump’s stupid attempt to pretend he did not lose the 2020 election felt, at…
Trump’s Favorite Veterans Charity Has Been Very Good for Its CEO. What Now?
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On June 23, 2017, Sarah Verardo, now the CEO of a veterans’ charity called the Independence Fund, and her husband, Mike, a two-time Purple Heart recipient and double amputee, attended a…
Count on Biden to Restore the National Monuments Trump Trashed
Trees line a low-lying gulch about the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument outside of Escalante, Utah.L.E. Baskow/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk…
Maricopa County Was the Epicenter of the Anti-Immigrant Movement. It Just Handed Arizona to Biden.
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in Phoenix in OctoberDemetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.For years, the news out of Maricopa County, Arizona, was bleak. It was…
Trump’s Latest False Fraud Claim Came From an Anonymous Internet Poster
Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On Thursday, Donald Trump posted a tweet falsely claiming a computerized voting system vendor had switched or deleted millions of his votes. The unfounded allegation appears…
Republican Party Reform Is Probably Dead For At Least a Decade
It’s a nice thought, but unfortunately it’s only half true.Jan Scheunert/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.I don’t agree with Ezra Klein that our problem is too little democracy—more about that later, perhaps—but I do agree…