Susan Collins Will Vote to Kill Abortion Rights
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Is Roe v. Wade effectively dead once President Trump nominates a conservative new justice to replace Anthony Kennedy? Maybe not! Republicans only have 51 votes in the Senate, and Susan Collins of Maine told Jake Tapper yesterday that she won’t…
Ben Carson’s War on HUD
Mother Jones illustration; US Department of Housing and Urban Development Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ben Carson was an unlikely choice to take over the nation’s housing department. The neurosurgeon turned failed GOP presidential candidate reportedly rejected President Donald Trump’s initial offer to serve as secretary of health and human…
Donald Trump Asked, “What Do You Have to Lose?” This Illinois Town Found Out.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In April 2017, Demarion Duncan learned he’d have to move. That in itself would not be the end of the world; the McBride public housing project in Cairo, Illinois, where the 12-year-old Duncan lived with his mom, dad, and two younger siblings, was falling apart.…
Trump Judicial Pick Who Blogged Favorably About the KKK Had to Withdraw. Now He’s at the Justice Department.
Bastiaan Slabbers/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brett Talley had already been voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and was on his way to a lifetime appointment to the federal bench when reporters discovered what he’d written about the Klan. Since 2005, Talley, a 36-year-old lawyer nominated for a…
Doc Gave Me a Startling Look Into the Opioid Crisis. Then He Was Gone.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Julia Lurie, Mother Jones reporter: When I first met Doc and Dre last August, they thought I was an undercover cop, or maybe a heroin user who was just getting started. They were standing with a group of guys under an awning on a gray, humid…
Neko Case’s “Hell-On” Is Harrowing and Absorbing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Neko CaseHell-OnANTI- Neko Case has such a strong, commanding voice that it’s hard to see how she could convey vulnerability, but Hell-On brims with sadness and regret. Her alt-country roots long are since forgotten—this riveting art-pop work mixes gorgeous, unpredictable melodies with inventive, sometimes oblique…