Mary Trump and Me: The Source Who Got Away
Peter Serling, 2020 For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.It came as a surprise. On Tuesday afternoon, a reporter tweeted a photograph of the first page of the “acknowledgements” in the new revelatory memoir by Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family…
The Supreme Court Just Struck a Huge Blow to Obamacare’s Birth Control Requirement
Jeff Malet/NC/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Trump administration rule that lets employers deny women free birth control coverage in health insurance plans on moral or religious grounds. The Affordable Care Act mandated that employers provide free contraceptive care as part…
Reopening Schools Is One of the Biggest Coronavirus Challenges. Trump and Fox News Are Making It Much Worse.
Gripas Yuri/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Amid the record-breaking surge in coronavirus cases, and as parents around the country face the enormous decision of whether to send their children back to school this fall, President Trump on Wednesday threatened to pull federal funding from school districts…
Is Small-Town White Montana Ready for My Big, Brown, Loud Family? It Doesn’t Matter, Because We’re Here Anyway.
Bunsen Peak, Yellowstone National ParkVenu Gupta and family For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.My parents came to the United States from India in 1973. I grew up believing that camping equaled two things: (1) being outside in the sun and therefore getting darker, a cardinal sin (colorism,…
LAPD Is Offended, Calls In Sick
Stuart Palley/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.From the Los Angeles Times tonight: An unsigned letter circulated among the Los Angeles Police Department rank and file last week, encouraging officers to call in sick to protect their own interests….“They succeeded in defunding the police; what do you…
Good News About That Factually Flawed Anti-Pinker Letter: Its Dishonesty Has Been Widely Exposed
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.So much for factual accuracy, sound reasoning, moral clarity, and transparency, or any other value that academics aim to uphold, judging by a dangerously dishonest open letter to the Linguistics Society of America. A handful of linguists co-signed a factually flawed and…