Radicals Took Over the Michigan GOP. Now They Can’t Stop Losing.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In early June, roughly 250 Michiganders filed into a windowless banquet hall for the Macomb County GOP’s annual Lincoln Dinner. The dining tables were decorated with white tablecloths, tiny American flags, and famous Lincoln quotes, while the silent auction…
The Most Powerful Moms in America Are the New Face of the Republican Party
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It is the first full day of the inaugural Moms for Liberty Joyful Warriors National Summit, and 500 such warriors are listening raptly as Florida governor Ron DeSantis delivers the keynote address. They fill tables in the grand ballroom…
Betsy DeVos Is Still on Donald Trump’s Side
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Press Wire Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.After President Donald Trump incited a riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos responded with an understandable degree of outrage. By her own account, she had…
New Title IX Rules Would Protect LGBT Students and Sexual Assault Survivors
Kristin Murphy/Deseret News/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Nearly two years since former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos implemented controversial rules for America’s schools that lessened their responsibility to respond to sexual harassment against students, the Biden administration on Thursday unveiled a…
The Fight for Student Debt Relief Started a Decade Ago—at Occupy Wall Street
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.As a 28-year-old art student, Thomas Gokey convinced the Federal Reserve to give him bags of shredded currency worth $49,983, the exact amount of his ballooning student loan debt. He had a plan to use the…
DeVos Quit Over This Week’s Violence. Sexual Assault Survivor Activists Aren’t Having Any of It.
The Washington Post/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned from her Cabinet position on Thursday night, writing in a letter to President Donald Trump that the actions of the mob that overran…
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