Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Are Leading the Democratic Candidates on Criminal Justice Reform
Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren greet each other at the Democratic Presidential Debate in Detroit in July.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images On Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled her plan to reform the criminal justice system, just two days after Sen. Bernie Sanders revealed his own. Both presidential candidates are proposing similar changes that would have been…
2020 Candidate Michael Bennet Wants to Sanction Russia for Its Memes
Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly via Zuma Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is making Russian election meddling a new focus of his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. On Wednesday he released Dividing America: How Russia Hacked Social Media and Democracy, a book examining attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election by manipulating social media platforms including…
A Fox News Contributor Just Took Fawning Over Trump to a Whole New Level of Ridiculous
Mother Jones illustration/Fox News Donald Trump was the oldest person to ever be sworn in as president. Today he’s 73, a handful of years shy of the average life expectancy for American men. In a clip that’s bound to boost his ego, a Fox News contributor on one of his favorite shows this weekend fawned…
Political Campaigns Are Pitching Donor-Match Programs That Might Not Exist
Nikolas Joao Kokovlis/Sopa/Zuma As the Democratic presidential candidates wound down their second debate in Detroit last month, Donald Trump’s fundraising committee blasted out an email decrying the “socialist circus” with a tempting offer to supporters of the president. “Our biggest fundraising deadline of the year is just 3 hours away, and we are still well…
Is Sen. Richard Burr Investigating Trump’s Russia Ties—or Helping to Cover Them Up?
Tim Bower Richard Burr was contrite. It was late February 2017, and the Washington Post had just exposed the North Carolina Republican and chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee for running damage control for the Trump administration over its mounting Russia scandal. Along with Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), his counterpart on the House Intelligence Committee,…
They Got Their Voting Rights Back, But Will They Go to the Polls?
Detric Linner, 41, is considering voting for the first time. Akasha Rabut/The Marshall Project This article was originally published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletter, or follow The Marshall Project on Facebook or Twitter. Most Sundays, Clint Williams attends service at one…