Trump Says He’ll Ignore Key Oversight Provision in Stimulus Bill
President Donald Trump at a signing ceremony for a $2 trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill in the Oval Office on FridayErin Schaff/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump says he plans to ignore a key oversight provision in the $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill passed by Congress…
“This Is How America Work”: Mind-Boggling New Allegations About a Donor to Trump’s Inauguration
Imaad Zuberi, left, leaves the a federal courthouse in Los Angeles on November 22, 2019.Brian Melley/AP Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week described a dizzying array of secret foreign lobbying by a major donor to both political parties—a new twist in a case that could reveal whether there were foreign efforts to funnel money…
Let’s Tear Down the Ivory Tower of News
The two of us came of age in newsrooms at the cusp of the digital age—late enough that you could tell everything was about to change, but early enough that old habits still held unquestioned sway. Some of these (like smoking at your desk) were soon to vanish, but others have been stubbornly hanging around.…
Trump to Payday Lenders: Let’s Rip America Off Again
A cash advance provider in Orpington, Kent, UKGrant Falvey/London News Pictures/Zuma When South Dakotans voted 3–to–1 to ban payday loans, they must have hoped it would stick. Interest on the predatory cash advances averaged an eye-popping 652 percent—borrow a dollar, owe $6.50—until the state axed them in 2016, capping rates at a fraction of that in…
Billionaire Oil Magnate Funded Travel by Lev Parnas
Lev Parnas arrives at federal court in New York on December 2, 2019.Scott Heins/Getty Images A billionaire Republican donor helped to bankroll travel by Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, as Parnas maneuvered to press the Ukrainian government to announce investigations that would help President Donald Trump politically. House Democrats on Wednesday released…
These Emails Show a Trump Official Helping Her Former Chemical Industry Colleagues
The Department of Agriculture building in Washington, DC.Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Images This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. In 2017, Dow Chemical scored a long-sought-after…