6-Year-Old School Shooter Case Grows Even More Disturbing
A candlelight vigil in support of wounded first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner, Newport News, Va.John C. Clark/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Before a 6-year-old intentionally shot his teacher in Newport News, Virginia, last Friday, school officials learned that the boy may have had a gun in…
Are Police Helicopter Fleets Worth the Money?
Beni Benitez stands outside of his home in South Los Angeles, a neighborhood a few miles south of the Los Angeles Police Department’s helicopter landing site.Isabel Avila Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This piece was published originally by Capital & Main. Los Angeles’ police and sheriff’s departments…
The Tragedy of the Oxford High School Mass Shooting Deepens
A vigil for shooting victims in Oxford, Michigan, on November 30, 2021Matthew Hatcher/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the year since a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan left four students dead and many others injured and traumatized, questions have loomed…
Hundreds of New York Women Are About to Sue Alleged Rapists (and Enablers) Under a Revolutionary New Law
Kena Betancur/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For years, former president Donald Trump has been able to push off a lawsuit filed against him by E. Jean Carroll, a writer and advice columnist who says he raped her in a department store dressing room…
Republicans Hoped a “Crime Wave” Was Their Ticket to a Red Wave. It Wasn’t.
Mother Jones illustration; Maria Lysenko/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Leading up to the election, Republicans relentlessly blasted voters with campaign ads about crime, offering them brutal images of shootings and assaults and suggesting that if progressives got their way, murderers would run rampant…
On Crime, Fetterman and Oz Aren’t as Polar Opposite as You Might Think
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, left, and Dr. Mehmet OzAP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If there’s one thing Dr. Mehmet Oz wants you to believe, it’s that his opponent Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is soft on crime. Oz, a celebrity talk-show host turned…