First Roe, Then Plyler? The GOP’s 40-Year Fight to Keep Undocumented Kids Out of Public School
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On August 31, 1977, Rosario Robles walked her five children to Bonner Elementary School in Tyler, Texas. Rosario and her husband, Jose, had immigrated to the United States from Mexico five years earlier and settled in…
McConnell Announces Tentative Support for Bipartisan Gun Safety Plan
Susan Walsh/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated Tuesday that he’ll likely support the bipartisan gun safety plan negotiated by 20 senators, a significant about-face for a politician who has spent decades working tirelessly to fend off…
The 1/6 Committee’s Biggest Challenge: Assessing Whether Trump Is Bonkers
J. Scott Applewhite/AO Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.One key mission for the House committee investigating the January 6 riot is affirming reality and highlighting the obvious: the 2020 election was not rigged to steal victory from Donald Trump. The committee’s…
Don’t Be Distracted by “Intoxicated” Rudy Giuliani
Mother Jones illustration; Mary Altaffer/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Donald Trump presumably wasn’t drunk when he prematurely declared victory at 2:30 a.m. on November 4, 2020. The 45th president, who famously doesn’t drink, was following a previously formed plan to…
Feds Expand Investigation Into Funding for Trump’s Media Empire
Aaron M. Sprecher/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Investigators with the Securities and Exchange Commission are expanding their probe into the plan to take Donald Trump’s social media startup public—news that could indefinitely delay, or even completely derail, what’s supposed to be…
Former Trump Campaign Manager Poised to Testify to January 6 Committee
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Eric Trump, and campaign manager for Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign Bill Stepien, listen as President Donald Trump speaks to a crowd of supporters during a campaign stop. Evan Vucci/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print…