59 Years Ago SCOTUS Guaranteed Access to Birth Control. Now, That and Much More Is Under Threat.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks with Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), far left, and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), center, during a news conference on the Right to Contraception Act in DC on Wednesday.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Friday…
Disenfranchised For Disabilities: Arizona’s Guardianship Law Is a Voting Rights Nightmare
A voter drops off her ballot at a drop box in Arizona.Matt York/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When Becky King’s daughter Beth Papp turned 18, she couldn’t register to vote in her home state of Arizona. Five years later, she still can’t.…
Report: The NYPD Is Trying To Revoke Trump’s Concealed Carry Permit
If the NYPD can help it, Trump will not be able to “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody,” as he once speculated, after his guilty conviction in the hush-money case.Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Remember when Trump,…
A Running List of Who Trump Has Called to Prosecute
Matt Rourke/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. For all his efforts to evade transparency and, instead, offer a steady stream of lies, Donald Trump has always been brutally honest about one thing: his penchant for revenge. This lust has, over the years, taken…
Trump’s Obsession With Revenge: A Big Post-Verdict Danger
Julia Nikhinson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Three days after a New York City jury turned Donald Trump into the first former president branded a felon, the onetime reality television host told Fox News, “My revenge will be success.” This above-the-fray rhetoric was…
Disability Advocates are Winning the Right to Plain Language Voting
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When Daniel Francis enters a voting booth, ballot measures can be very anxiety-inducing: many are above his reading level. “If it’s using words that I don’t understand, I just kind of rush on to answer,…