Trump Promised His Appointees Wouldn’t Become Lobbyists. Guess How That Turned Out.
Getty This story was originally published by ProPublica. Lobbyists who joined the Trump administration and now want to return to their old trade have a problem: President Trump said they can’t. Days after taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring every political appointee to sign a pledge as a condition of taking office.…
This Is Your Banking System on Trump
Getty Images This story first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Warning: What you are about to read is not about Russia, the 2016 election, or the latest person to depart from the White House in a storm of tweets. It’s the Beltway story hiding in plain sight with trillions of dollars in play and an economy to…
A Federal Jury Just Fined the Pork Industry $50 Million for Being Bad Neighbors
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For decades, the largely African-American communities situated near massive hog operations on North Carolina’s coastal plain have endured fetid odors that trigger eye irritation, difficulty breathing, and feelings of stress and anxiety. On Thursday, 10 hog-country residents got some relief. In the first verdict in…
How a Mysterious Overseas Shell Company Used a Former GOP Congressman to Lobby Trump and Congress
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last year, Howard “Buck” McKeon, a former Republican congressman who chaired the House Armed Services Committee, was hired to lobby for an Albanian political party seeking access to the Trump administration and congressional Republicans. But most of his firm’s work was bankrolled…
More Guns Won’t Make Us Safer. Here’s What Might.
siiixth/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Guns. In a country with more than 300 million of them, a country that’s recently been swept up in a round of protests over the endless killing sprees they permit, you’d think I might have had more…
“I Was Very Disappointed to See Propaganda Being Pumped into My Living Room”
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Judy Jones was watching the 11 p.m. news on her local NBC affiliate, WPBN, one evening when she saw her first “Terrorism Alert Desk,” a news segment that’s run daily across all TV stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Jones, a retired nonprofit director…