Most Americans Don’t Believe Trump’s Biggest Lie About the Tax Plan
Dan Anderson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Less than two weeks before the end of the year, President Donald Trump is set to finally score the first major legislative victory of his presidency, with both the House and Senate planning to pass the Republican tax reform bill on Tuesday. But the…
Donald Trump Has Decided Global Warming Is No Longer a Threat to National Security
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a striking departure from the previous administration’s emphasis on the challenges posed by global warming, President Donald Trump’s first national security strategy does not list climate change as a threat to American interests. “With the strategy I am announcing today, we are declaring that…
Festival of Slights, the 7th Night: The Holocaust Statement
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Happy Hanukkah! Mother Jones is celebrating this year’s festival of lights with a festival of slights. Specifically, President Donald Trump’s slights toward the Jewish people. In its first year, the Trump administration has developed something of a reputation for making important words…
Stolen Emails. Wikileaks. White Supremacists. Donald Trump. It All Happened in 2009.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Heads of StateWhat does a 2009 controversy involving climate scientists have in common with Russia’s cyberattacks during the 2016 election? Quite a lot, actually. Both incidents featured stolen emails, WikiLeaks, Donald Trump, and day after day of breathless, often inaccurate, media coverage. Eight years…
Festival of Slights, the 6th Night: The Jew Counter
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Happy Hanukkah! Mother Jones is celebrating this year’s festival of lights with a festival of slights. Specifically, President Donald Trump’s slights toward the Jewish people. Since his inauguration, many of President Donald Trump’s appointees have made headlines for being excruciatingly unfit for…
10 Albums to Help You Heal From the Trauma of 2017
Justina Mintz/AMC Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Reality has been pretty hard to handle—and impossible to escape—this past year. But sometimes we just need a break, a pause to refresh the spirit for the challenges ahead or to remind us that this too shall pass, however dire things may seem.…