Get In Line. Follow the Rules. Go to Jail.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was from two small faces on a video monitor that Ansly Damus learned the trees outside his jail cell were turning colors. It was late October, and Damus, a 42-year-old former teacher from Haiti who legally claimed asylum at the border in 2016, had…
Forget the Neon—This New Photo Collection Shows Darkness and Decay Along America’s Highway
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Robert Frank’s mid-’50s photographic romp around the United States—captured in his seminal book The Americans—canonized the road trip as a photographic right-of-passage. Since then, many notable photographers have taken the temperature of the country via the open road, with varying degrees of success. Among the…
The Aftertaste of Slavery Still Haunts American Cooking
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid the ongoing controversy over Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and his racist medical-school yearbook hijinx, his wife, Pam Northam, recently plunged into another one. During a school tour of the governor’s mansion, built by slave labor in 1813, Pam Northam handed cotton and tobacco to…
Tijuana Is Overwhelmed by a Rush of Asylum-Seekers—Many of Them Women With Children
Sister Salome Limas at the Madre Asunta shelter for women and children in Tijuana Mexico. Fernanda Echavarri Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sister Salome Limas says she recently added a new category to the intake ledger at the women’s shelter in Tijuana. She pulls out a large book, opens it…
Five Things a Democratic President Could Do By Declaring a National Emergency Over Climate Change
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over and over, President Donald Trump has done things no sitting president would dare do. In February, the country again entered new terrain when he declared a national emergency, effectively unlocking billions of dollars in emergency funding for his border wall.…
Paul Manafort Was Just Sentenced to Four Years in Prison
Paul Manafort arrives at a May 23, 2018 court hearing in Washington, DC.Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge in Virginia sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, 69, to 47 months in prison on tax and bank fraud charges on Thursday. The sentence follows…