Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Calling for Brett Kavanaugh’s Impeachment
Chip Somodevill/Getty On two separate occasions, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to classmates at Yale University in the 1980s, according to new reporting from New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly. The two published details of the incidents, one of which involved Deborah Ramirez, whose allegations were not fully investigated during…
Tommy Tuberville Perfected His Folksy Trumpism in That Great Lab of Democracy: Local Sports Radio
Mother Jones illustration; Stew Milne/AP; Getty “I don’t need the job and I ain’t going to be politically correct,” said Tommy Tuberville recently at a campaign rally. Intentionally or not, it’s a pretty good summation of Tuberville’s approach to his run for US Senate. Tuberville is best known for his 40 years as a college football…
Elections Commission Chief Uses the “Nuclear Option” to Rescue the Agency From Gridlock
Joe Raedle/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fed up with the Federal Election Commission’s gridlock that has given violators of election law a free pass, the agency’s new chair says she won’t allow FEC lawyers to defend the government when the FEC has been sued for not enforcing the law. This drastic…
10 Years of Privacy Violations, Disinformation, and Friend Requests From Facebook
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Facebook assumed its central role in the information landscape, the company quietly made decisions that boosted profits with little regard to the consequences for privacy, politics, and the news industry. When those controversial calls and other travails associated with abuses of the platform gradually…
How Facebook Screwed Us All
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This essay is the cover story for our March/April issue. (Subscribe here!) Portions of it appeared earlier here and here. A country riven by ethnic tension. Spontaneous protests driven by viral memes. Violence and riots fueled by hateful fake-news posts, often about “terrorism” by marginalized…
My Father Warned Me Against Joining a Fraternity. I Didn’t Listen, But Maybe My Son Will.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A membership ritual at an unnamed Cal fraternity, from Andrew Moisey’s The American Fraternity On a Wednesday in mid-October, the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity near the University of California’s Berkeley campus looks all but deserted. The heavy wooden doors are shut and there’s not a “Fiji”…