It’s Been a Year Since Trump Enacted Sweeping Tax Cuts. Rich People Won.
Man hands sweeping money,business concept. Lucky man winning lots of us dollar from gambling,with smiling face and black background.cherrybeans/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One year ago today, President Donald Trump signed into law the largest tax overhaul America had seen in 30 years. In an Oval Office signing ceremony…
How Donald Trump Has Made Christmas With Relatives Even Worse
AntonioGuillem/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s the time of year when families mingle, for all that entails, so we reached out to readers to ask how political differences among relatives have affected their holidays. Specifically, we asked whether anyone had kept quiet about their midterm votes in order to…
The Trump Shutdown Has Begun
Merry Christmas.Mother Jones illustration; Ralf Hirschberger/dpa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After an 11th-hour government-funding agreement collapsed amid President Donald Trump’s demands for a border wall, the government partially shut down at midnight. Senate adjourns Shutdown at midnight is OFFICIAL — Burgess Everett (@burgessev) December 22, 2018 Last week, Trump…
The Green New Deal Is Really Popular—Even Among Republicans
Earlier this month, protesters from the Sunrise Movement, an environmental advocacy group, staged a protest inside Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)’s office.Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Green New Deal is the most popular policy hardly anyone has heard of yet. Eighty-two percent…
Native Women Are Already Extremely Vulnerable to Domestic Violence. Congress Is About to Make It Worse.
The family of a missing Native woman cries during a traditional blanket dance on a Montana Indian reservation in July. Statistics show that Native women are at greater risk of abuse or to go missing.David Goldman/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Taryn Minthorn was living on an Indian reservation in…
Joe Manchin Will Be the Top Democrat on the Energy Committee
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer released a list of committee assignments on Tuesday that brought bad news for environmental activists: Joe Manchin, the pro-coal West Virginia senator who narrowly held onto his deep-red seat this November, will now be the…