From “Deliriously Happy” to “Deeply Depressed”—Your Divided Reactions to the Midterms
Supporters listen to Beto O’Rourke as he concedes the race on Election Day in El Paso, Texas.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The midterms are over, and while we’re still waiting on final vote counts for a few races, most of the results are in. On election day, we…
Gun Control Advocates Have a Majority in Congress. Here’s How They Plan to Use It.
Gun safety activist Lucy McBath, who was elected to Congress this week in Georgia’s 6th district, lost her son Jordan Davis in a 2012 shooting.Iris Schneider/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Gun control advocates are planning an aggressive legislative strategy when Congress reconvenes in January. Working closely with key lawmakers,…
Parent of California Shooting Victim: “I Want Gun Control”
Jason Coffman, right, talks to the media about his son, Cody Coffman, who died in the shooting, and holds onto his father-in-law, Mike Johnston, in Thousand Oaks, California. Jonathan J. Cooper/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday night, a gunman entered a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, California,…
Hey David: It Wasn’t “We” Who Screwed the Working Class
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I get so tired sometimes. Here is David Brooks today: Working-class voters tried to send a message in 2016, and they are still trying to send it. The crucial question is whether America’s leaders will listen and respond. One way to start doing that is…
What Drove Media Coverage of the Migrant Caravan?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here in leftyville, it’s an article of faith that hysteria over the migrant caravan from Honduras is purely an invention of Donald Trump, one that the media, inexplicably, went along with. I certainly believe that, and during lunch it occurred to me that it might…
#ProtectMueller Protesters Shut Down Streets in Midtown Manhattan: “We Have to Resist”
Times SquareSam Van Pykeren/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Large crowds gathered in New York’s Times Square Thursday night to call for protections for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Protesters later seemed to shut down traffic as they marched south down Broadway. Other…