This 16-Year-Old Founded a “Movement of Unstoppable Youth” to Save the Planet
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Sorry, it’s homeroom,” Jamie Margolin, a 16-year-old climate activist and high school sophomore, tells me when I call for an interview. “Let me get to a quieter spot.” Margolin, who lives in Seattle, is used to juggling homework, debate club, media interviews, writing op-eds,…
Watch Members of Congress Go Off on Betsy DeVos at a Budget Hearing
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos waits to testify before a House Committee on Appropriation subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday morning, Democratic lawmakers seized an opportunity to press Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on everything from racial bias in student discipline to guns in schools as she defended a proposed…
More Cops Won’t Make Schools Safer, But Here’s What They Will Do
Joshua Polson/The Greeley Tribune/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ contribution to a White House plan to make schools safer post-Parkland is predictably in line with his tough-on-crime approach to governing: put more cops in schools. Last week, he proposed a measure to prioritize grant funding for those who intend…
The FBI Is Too White—And It Considers That a “Huge Operational Risk”
FBI Director Christopher Wray. Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. For the FBI, the long-standing failure to diversify its ranks is nothing short of “a huge operational risk,” according to one senior official, something that compromises the agency’s ability…
A Federal Judge Just Ruled Against the LAPD and Delivered a Big Win for Civil Rights
May 24, 2016 – CA, USA – San Diego, CA. May 24, 2016 | I.C.E. agents release the handcuffs on a man being deported to Mexico, as the Mexican official waits at the junction of the two gates opening between Mexico and the U.S. Several times a week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement takes individuals…
Philadelphia’s District Attorney Just Showed America’s Prosecutors How to End Mass Incarceration
Larry Krasner heads to his polling place to cast a ballot on Nov. 7, 2017. Matt Rourke Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Newly minted Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner was elected on a platform of bringing criminal justice reform to the office and attacking mass incarceration. Now Krasner, a former…