Disarming the NRA: How Guns Flipped Virginia Blue
Rob Dobi On May 31, a disgruntled city employee entered a municipal building in Virginia Beach and opened fire, killing 12 people. Virginians were horrified, then outraged. Ever since the mass shooting that killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007, there’d been a growing push to strengthen the state’s comparatively loose gun laws. But…
Nancy Pelosi Says Trump Should Testify Under Oath Instead of Sounding Off on Twitter
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Ahead of the next batch of marathon impeachment hearings this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited President Donald Trump to answer questions from investigators instead of sounding off on Twitter. In a Sunday interview with Face the Nation, Pelosi declined to say whether bribery would be among the articles of impeachment filed against…
Trump Attacks Vice President’s Aide Ahead of Her Impeachment Testimony
Evan Vucci/AP On Sunday, President Donald Trump attacked Jennifer Williams, a national security aide to Vice President Mike Pence, calling her a “Never Trumper” just two days before Williams is set to testify before lawmakers in the ongoing impeachment inquiry. Tell Jennifer Williams, whoever that is, to read BOTH transcripts of the presidential calls, &…
Michael Bloomberg Apologizes for “Stop and Frisk” Just a Few Months After Defending It
Thibault Camus/AP Since leaving office in 2013, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has consistently backed his police department’s “stop and frisk” program in which black and Latino people were nine times more likely to be stopped by police than white people, all in an effort to reduce crime. As recently as January of this…
Trump Just Compared Biden to a “Rabid Dog” on Twitter
Alex Brandon/Associated Press Trump was on a Twitter tear Sunday morning, retweeting a Rush Limbaugh takedown of the impeachment hearings and a Rep. Kevin McCarthy spot on Fox News that’s highly favorable to the President. But one tweet in particular stands out. In it, Trump weighs in on a statement from North Korean dictator Kim…
Presidential Candidates Wouldn’t Touch This Radical Idea to Transform Agriculture—Until Now
Mother Jones illustration; John Minchillo/AP; Getty Food and agriculture policies have been at best a fringe issues during the last few Democratic presidential primaries. Candidates tend limit their agricultural appeals to “broad value statements” rather than dive into the policy specifics “that would indicate they’ve given these issues the attention they deserve,” says Sarah Hackney,…