A Quick Guide to Legal Pot in California
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For Californians, legal cannabis is right around the corner. But we have questions. And as it turns out, many of you do, too. A couple weeks ago we wanted to know what questions you had about pot, and the responses were overwhelming.…
Republicans Quietly Warn Trump: Don’t Fire Mueller
Robert Mueller leaves the Capitol building after meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, June 21, 2017.Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With members of Congress headed home for the holidays, Washington is bracing for the possibility that President Donald Trump will attempt to…
Trump Just Signed a $1.5 Trillion Tax Cut for the Rich. Here’s How We Could Have Spent That Money.
Mike_Kiev/iStock/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump signed the sweeping Republican $1.5 trillion tax bill on Friday morning, ballooning the country’s deficit in order to cut taxes for corporations and America’s wealthiest households, including the president’s. Here are a few other things that sum—or far less—could have funded: When…
Judge Tosses Out Lawsuit Targeting Trump’s Foreign Business Dealings
NewsBase/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Late on Thursday, a federal judge in New York threw out a lawsuit claiming that the money President Trump receives from his various businesses violates the Constitution’s limits on emoluments, or payments from foreign governments. Judge George Daniel, in a 29-page opinion, wrote…
Trump Administration Imposes Sanctions on Son of Kremlin Official Linked to Trump Tower Meeting
Russian Prosecutor General Yuri ChaikaRyumin Alexander/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on Artem Chaika, the son of Russian prosecutor general Yuri Chaika. A June 2016 email to Donald Trump Jr. described the Russian prosecutor as a participant in an effort by Moscow to aid…
Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts Will Save Him Millions of Dollars
Donald Trump at his Trump Tower office in New York in 2013Dan Hallman/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Many of the arguments that Republicans have used to sell their tax bill are completely implausible. There is overwhelming reason to believe, for example, that the tax cut won’t pay for itself. Then there’s President Donald…