Elizabeth Warren Tore Into Trump’s Consumer Watchdog Nominee Over Family Separations
Bill Clark/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) had harsh words on Thursday for Kathy Kraninger, Trump’s nominee to lead the primary federal agency tasked to be a watchdog for consumers against Wall Street excess. Ever since Warren proposed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and helped create that agency following…
Trump Says White Supremacist Terror Is Fake News. These Chilling Cases Prove Otherwise.
Suspects in custody in Portland, OR, and Orange County, CABeth Nakamura/The Oregonian/AP; Ken Steinhardt/The Orange County Register/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four days after a homemade bomb blew through the window of a mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, in August 2017, Sebastian Gorka, then a national security aide to President…
Democratic Frontrunner Who Abused Ex-Wife Wins South Carolina Primary
Mother Jones illustration; Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Archie Parnell, a former Goldman Sachs managing director who has long been viewed as the Democratic frontrunner in the primary for the House seat representing South Carolina’s 5th District, won his party’s nomination Tuesday night, meaning he’ll move forward to November despite divorce records made public…
Thousands are “Dying” Across the Country to Mark the Two Year Anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting
Protesters participate in a die-in Tuesday in West Palm Beach, Florida, across the water from the Mar-a-Lago resort, to mark the anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At noon Tuesday, Capitol Hill was littered with the bodies of high school students from…
This South Carolina Primary Will Test Whether Democrats Are Willing to Overlook Domestic Violence
Mother Jones illustration; Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the past year, Archie Parnell, a former Goldman Sachs managing director and former tax attorney for ExxonMobil, has been among the candidates the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee viewed as contenders to fulfill their dreams of a Blue Wave in the 2018…
Illinois Just Ratified the Equal Rights Amendment
A woman cheers as feminist Gloria Steinem takes the stage at the Women’s March on Washington on January 21, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Alex Edelman via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday night, the Illinois House of Representatives narrowly voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the…