Rudy Giuliani Slimes Joe Biden as “Mentally Deficient”
Rudy GiulianiAndrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Donald Trump goes low, Rudy Giuliani gleefully follows him. On Friday, the president’s lawyer continued to channel his boss’ playbook, lobbing crass personal insults at political opponents who’ve devoted their lives to public service. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Giuliani…
What If We Held a Constitutional Convention and the Right-Wingers Prevailed?
Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nature’s rights, universal basic income, keeping money out of politics: These are some of the principles guiding a coalition of left-wing Californians who want to serve as the “progressive voice” at a convention—which they believe is inevitable—to amend the United States Constitution.…
Inside the Right-Wing YouTube Empire Trying to Turn Millennials Conservative
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mark UlriksenIn the weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Americans flocked to the internet with pressing questions. Some inquired about immigration to Canada. Others Googled “sanctuary city.” A few wanted to know what a “manafort” was. And millions were newly curious about the Electoral…
California Secessionists Are Hoping For A Trump Bump
Mother Jones illustration; Viktorcvetkovic/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Adam Ringel felt the stirrings of national pride at an early age. “Ever since was I a kid, I identified as a Californian, not an American,” he recalled as he sat in the back of a café in San Francisco’s Mission…
“Why the Hell Are We Standing Down?”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is the second of two excerpts adapted from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones.…
The DCCC’s First Big Test of 2018 Blew Up in Its Face
Caleb Holder/Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee waded into the seven-way primary for Texas’ seventh congressional district last month with a specific goal in mind: delivering a knockout blow to Laura Moser, a freelance writer and Resistance activist with a large national following, who it…