Good on Susan Collins for Doing the Bare Minimum
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee for Associate Justice to the Supreme Court, meets with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in her office on Tuesday, March 8, 2022.Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced today…
Why You Should Care That Ginni Thomas Is Bonkers
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia Thomas at funeral services for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Editor’s note: This essay by David Corn first appeared in his newsletter, Our…
We All Know Teachers Are Underpaid. But Who Imagined It Was This Bad?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This article was co-published with EdSurge, a nonprofit newsroom that covers the future of learning through original journalism and research. Just before her 16th birthday, Cara Rothrock got her first job working at a 1950s roadside restaurant…
A 7-Hour Gap in Jan. 6 Phone Logs Raises the Question: Did Trump Use a Burner?
Oliver Contreras/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The ongoing mystery over what Donald Trump was doing behind closed doors on January 6 as his supporters stormed the US Capitol now includes a glaring, seven-hour gap in the phone records of the White…
The Trumps Did Business With an Oligarch Linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. They’d Like You to Forget.
AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As part of the ongoing negotiations to revive the Iran nuclear deal, diplomats have floated the possibility of removing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps from the United States’ official list of terrorist groups.…
Ted Cruz’s Efforts to Keep Trump in Office Went Far Deeper Than We Knew
Rod Lamke/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Ted Cruz knows a thing or two about the Constitution—or at least he should. After attending Harvard Law School, the Texas senator once clerked for US Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig, advised George W.…