Here’s How Former Sanders Staffers are Gearing Up to Help Biden Win
Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wave their campaign signs at a rally in Chicago’s Grant Park Saturday, March 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The ex-Bernie Sanders staffers behind a new pro-Joe Biden super PAC have a pitch…
ICE Asked Parents to Choose Between Family Separation and Prolonged Detention—During a Pandemic
A young mother speaks on the phone from a family detention center in Texas in 2016.Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Washington Post via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at family detention centers presented parents with a horrifying question, according…
“AKA Jane Roe” Shows How the Abortion Fight Steamrolled the Real Norma McCorvey
Norma McCorvey in “AKA Jane Roe”FX For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Toward the end of the new documentary AKA Jane Roe, when Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade fame) makes a self-described “deathbed confession” that she never truly converted to Christianity—she was in it for the…
In the Middle of the Pandemic, Trump Just Took Another Step That Puts the World at Risk
Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.While you were worrying about a global pandemic, a collapsing economy, an election threatened by disinformation and Russian intervention, and, of course, murder hornets, Donald Trump took a step to make the world even more dangerous. He declared on…
Trump Claimed Arms Sales Would Provide a Massive Jobs Boost. A New Report Shows How Wrong He Was.
President Donald Trump discusses arms sales to Saudi Arabia with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.SMG/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump has become a relentless booster for weapon sales to Saudi Arabia, despite the kingdom’s increasing authoritarianism under the rule of its de-facto leader Crown…
A New Poll Has Bad News For Donald Trump—and He’s Only Making Things Worse
Stringer/Sputnik via AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The election is in about six months, and at the moment polls have Joe Biden trouncing Donald Trump. Indeed, Trump has led the presumptive Democratic nominee in only two national head-to-heads all year. As the Atlantic put it, “It…