Trump’s Labor Secretary Runs Right Back to the Anti-Labor Law Firm He Came From
Proud to serve: Eugene Scalia with Donald Trump.Andrew Harnik/AP Photo Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Back in 2019, when former President Donald Trump needed a new labor secretary, he reached into the powerhouse law firm Gibson,…
One Man’s Quest to Crack the Modern Anti-Immigrant Movement—by Unsealing Its Architect’s Papers
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In the days following the 2016 presidential election, then-Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and President-elect Donald Trump posed for photographs at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey.…
Dr. Deborah Birx Is Finally Opening Up About Trump’s “Very Uncomfortable” Treatment of Her
President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Deborah Birx speaks about the coronavirus at the White House on April 22, 2020.Alex Brandon/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Donald Trump did not appreciate it when, in August, then-White…
Exclusive Video: Watch Roger Stone’s Oath Keeper Bodyguards Practice Headshots to “#Stopantifa”
Federal prosecutors have charged 10 members of the far-right Oath Keepers with conspiring to storm the US Capitol on January 6 and allege that militia members prepared for the “operation” by “attending or scheduling trainings to learn paramilitary combat tactics.” Video and images reviewed by Mother Jones show that three of the indicted Oath Keepers…
A Post-Trump Guide to Stopping the Lies and Healing Our Politics
Oxford University Press/Mother Jones illustration Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Cass Sunstein is a public intellectual and provocateur—and he has been pondering a timely issue: public lying. A longtime Harvard law professor and an expert on…
Post-Trump, the GOP Continues to be the Party of (White) Grievance
A supporter of former President Donald Trump shouts at a demonstrator outside the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida.John Raoux/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.After the GOP lost the presidential election in 2012,…