Tucker Carlson Calls Iraqis “Semiliterate Primitive Monkeys” in Latest Round of Tapes
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Already under fire over recently unearthed remarks that have been widely condemned as misogynistic, Fox News host Tucker Carlson is facing another barrage of criticism. A new round of decade-old recordings released late Monday by the liberal group Media Matters captures Carlson describing…
How Facebook and Amazon Help Hate Groups Raise Money
Karla Ann Cote/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook and Amazon appear to be helping hate groups fundraise through philanthropy tools hosted on their platforms. Mother Jones found dozens of white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ organizations that appear to have access to Facebook’s Fundraiser tool, which lets users and organizations collect…
Police Are Increasingly Taking Advantage of Home DNA Tests. There Aren’t Any Regulations to Stop It.
A criminalist prepares DNA samples for analysis in a crime lab.Matt York/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. CeCe Moore knew that she could find serial killers. But she wasn’t sure that she should. By the time authorities in Sacramento, California, announced an arrest in the Golden State Killer case in…
Vote: What Do You Want to Know About the Green Deal?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) during a press conference announcing the Green New Deal.Alex Edelman/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, we asked Mother Jones readers what they wanted to know about the Green New Deal. We received more than a hundred questions on the climate resolution, ranging from its cost…
California’s Teachers Are Finally Going After the Original Sin That Wrecked the State’s Public Schools
Student Damyha Gates, 9, center, speaks next to her mother, teacher Myeisha Jones, center left, as teachers, parents and supporters march outside of Manzanita Community School in Oakland, California. Jeff Chiu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On February 20, just before Oakland’s teachers went on strike, Carmelita Reyes organized a…
The Absurd Case of an Alabama Man Who Thinks He Has the Right to Be a Father
People supporting and opposing abortion demonstrate outside of the Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives in Huntsville, Ala., Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, during a “40 Days of Life Prayer Vigil.” Sarah Cole/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In August 2017, I visited the Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and…