A Disturbing Gun Case Further Reveals the Peril of January 6
Capitol Police officers detain protesters outside the House Chamber during a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021.Drew Angerer/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last month, the Justice Department unsealed the latest case involving gun charges against an alleged participant in…
Congress Agreed on Drastic Military Sexual Assault Reform. Then “Four Men Behind Closed Doors” Got Their Hands On It.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) during a December 8 press conference.Graeme Sloan/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Thirty years ago, at a raucous Las Vegas conference of Navy aviators, dozens of male military officers crowded into a dimly lit hotel hallway, where they…
New Evidence Suggests Trump DOJ Official Conspired With White House to Overturn 2020 Election
Depart of Justice official Jeffrey Clark speaks during a news conference on September 14, 2020.Susan Walsh/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Jeffrey Clark, an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department under Donald Trump, played a key role in Trump’s conspiracy to…
Dear White People: Here’s How to Honor Native Americans
Chiricahua Apache children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1885Library of Congress Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.November is my annual season of ambivalence. Although I love autumn, its poignant air of loss and the promise of renewal, it has the…
Kyle Rittenhouse Didn’t Break the Law. That’s Terrifying.
Adam Rogan/The Journal Times/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Kyle Rittenhouse and Gaige Grosskreutz—two young men who were both foolishly armed—faced off, for a split second, in the middle of a street in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 25, 2020, Wild West style.…
A Jim Crow–Era Murder. A Family Secret. Decades Later, What Does Justice Look Like?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Joyce Faye Nelson-Crockett was 13 years old in 1955, dancing to a jukebox in the Hughes Cafe on a Saturday night in East Texas with her sister and her 16-year-old cousin, John Earl Reese. The boy had…