The Worst Lawyer in Texas Just Put an End to the Bush Dynasty
Texas Attorney General Ken PaxtonMother Jones illustration; Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.If you were to lay out in one place the Bush family’s contributions over the last half century, it would not be a particularly balanced ledger. In…
Brian Kemp Humiliates Donald Trump (and David Perdue) in Georgia
Brian Kemp, center, walks with then President Donald Trump, and his challenger, former senator David Perdue, at a rally in 2018. Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In a rebuke of Donald Trump and his wild lies about the 2020 election, Georgia…
Herschel Walker, Star Running Back Who Claims a Bumper Sticker Stopped Him From Shooting Someone, Wins Georgia Primary
Mother Jones illustration; Sean Rayford/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Herschel Walker, a former star running back whose actual political stances are ill-defined to nonexistent, has secured the primary nomination for Republican senator in Georgia, according to multiple outlets. Walker is…
Trump Pays $110,000 Fine to New York’s Attorney General
AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Former President Donald Trump’s long contempt of court saga is over, for now, with attorneys for New York State Attorney General Letitia James, who is conducting a civil fraud investigation into Trump’s…
Can One Bay Area Housing Complex Radically Change Affordable Housing?
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.This story was produced in collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. The walls of Royce McLemore’s small office are covered with fresh and yellowing news clippings, group photos, and thank-you cards—testaments to her commitment to…
Climate Denial Group Is Masquerading as a Charity, Critics Say
Charles Koch in 2019. Donors Trust, a fund backed by the Kochs, has given more than $600,000 in recent years to the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s US arm.David Zalubowski/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Global Warming Policy Foundation, a climate skeptic think tank, has been…