Quote of the Day: Manufacturing Is Easy in a Dictatorship!
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the New York Times, explaining why manufacturing is more convenient in China: Another frustration with manufacturing in Texas: American workers won’t work around the clock. Chinese factories have shifts working at all hours, if necessary, and workers are sometimes even roused from their sleep…
If You Thought the Polar Vortex Was Bad, What’s Happening Now Is Genuinely Shocking
Temperatures in Chicago are expected to plunge 20 degrees below zero.chrip0/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A deadly cold snap is hitting the Midwest, plunging roughly 200 million people into one of the most frigid weeks on record. Parts of Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois will see temperatures plunge up…
Two Years Ago, This Immigration Lawyer Marched on an Airport. Today, He’s Running for State House.
Hassan Ahmad in his law firm in McLean, VirginiaKanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The day after President Donald Trump announced his travel ban two years ago, on January 28, 2017, Hassan Ahmad headed to Dulles International Airport in Virginia hoping to help. A local immigration lawyer, Ahmad says he felt like he had…
Sherrod Brown Could Be Bernie Sanders’ Biggest Threat in 2020
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2015, Sherrod Brown didn’t want to be president. “I know you don’t believe this, but I don’t really think about it all that much,” he told the Washington Post at the time. Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, a longtime friend of the Ohio…
Roger Stone Says He Might Cooperate With Mueller
Amy Beth Bennett/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone indicated on Sunday that he might be willing to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller after being charged Friday with obstruction, witness tampering, and lying to Congress amid Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.…
Quote of the Day: Who Cares If We Smeared the Wrong Person?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From Kevin Powell, activist and dance producer, after unleashing an enormous smear campaign which turned out to be targeted at the wrong person: Regardless if we had proof or not, what we do have proof of is the historical reality of being a person of…