Sanders and Warren Have Very Different Plans to Fix Student Debt
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) holds a news conference to discuss his college affordability legislation in Washington on Monday June 24, 2019.Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call via AP Bernie Sanders just took his long-running war against the high cost of college to a whole new level: He’s introducing a bill to cancel all $1.6 trillion outstanding student…
Federal Judge Opens a Longshot Path to Striking Down Census Citizenship Question
Immigration activists rally outside the Supreme Court on April 23 as the justices hear arguments over the Trump administration’s plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census.J. Scott Applewhite/AP A federal judge in Maryland found on Monday that the Trump administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census might have been motivated…
Donald Trump Is an Alleged Serial Sexual Assaulter
In the latest issue of New York, E. Jean Carroll says that Donald Trump raped her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-90s: The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips. I…
Debates Matter More Than You Thought
Mother Jones illustration; Win McNamee/Getty It’s finally happening. On Wednesday, 10 Democratic candidates will take the stage in Miami for the first debate of the 2020 presidential campaign. On Thursday, 10 different Democrats will do it again. Sure, it will be entertaining. But do debates actually matter? Debates “can lose you the campaign if you…
The Chilling Story of Three Women Haunted by the Same Rapist—And How the Law Failed Them
Mother Jones illustrationSomething about the sound of the knock at the front door made Mary-Scott Hunter think a neighbor was in trouble. She had just arrived home from her job at a corporate training company, and she was mulling over an earlier fight with her girlfriend, but the knock jolted her out of it: five…
Angry and Frustrated South Bend Residents Just Confronted Mayor Pete Over Fatal Police Shooting
The Hill/Twitter In South Bend, Indiana, a nearly two-hour town hall turned tense when mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg took questions in the aftermath of recent police-involved shooting that killed a black man. Sergeant Ryan O’Neill shot Eric Logan, 53, last Sunday while responding to reports that Logan was breaking into cars. Authorities say…