Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Are Leading the Democratic Candidates on Criminal Justice Reform
Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren greet each other at the Democratic Presidential Debate in Detroit in July.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images On Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled her plan to reform the criminal justice system, just two days after Sen. Bernie Sanders revealed his own. Both presidential candidates are proposing similar changes that would have been…
Four Mass Shootings Have Been Thwarted Since the El Paso Massacre, Authorities Say
Mother Jones illustration; Eline van Nes/Zuma; Getty In the two weeks since the gun massacre in El Paso, Texas, federal and local authorities have thwarted four additional threats they said could have resulted in mass attacks. All four of the alleged plotters—in Nevada, Connecticut, Florida, and Ohio—were heavily armed young white men. At least three…
Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Still Feels Unbelievable. According to an Expert, It Isn’t.
Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP More than a week after Jeffrey Epstein’s shocking death, which on Friday the New York City medical examiner concluded was a suicide by hanging, it still feels somewhat unbelievable. Even if you’re not in the camp of Trumpian conspiracies, there are a slew of legitimate questions about the the…
California Just Passed New Limits on Police Use of Force. Not Everyone Is Happy With the Compromise.
California Gov. Gavin NewsomAssemblymember Shirley Weber/Facebook California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law one of the country’s most substantive police use-of-force bills on Monday. The legislation nominally attempts to narrow the parameters for when officers are allowed to use deadly force on the job—marking a significant turning point for the state, which is the country’s…
Hundreds of New Child Sex Abuse Cases Are Flooding New York’s Courts
ChiccoDodiFC/Getty When 52-year-old Michael Whalen stood up in front of the St. Louis Roman Catholic Church in downtown Buffalo, New York, in February 2018, to tell his story of being sexually abused by a priest as a teenager, it set off a Spotlight-style chain reaction. The accused priest, the Rev. Norbert F. Orsolits, told a…
When Your Rapist Demands Custody
Before her son began school last year, Tiffany Gordon showed his father’s mugshot to school administrators. “If you see this guy, you have to call the police,” she told them. Ten years earlier, when Tiffany was 12, a young man she knew invited her, her sister, and a friend on a late-night car ride. “I…