New York’s Adult Survivors Act Has Expired
Edna Leshowitz/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After one year, with more than 2,500 lawsuits filed, New York’s Adult Survivors Act expired Friday. The act lifted the statute of limitations for civil claims by adult sexual assault survivors, providing New Yorkers a one-year “lookback window”…
Trump’s Immigration Plan Is a New Level of Extreme. It Also Gives Biden an Opportunity to Do Better.
President Donald Trump tours a section of the border wall.Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Before Donald Trump became president and presided over some of the most draconian anti-immigrant policies in recent memory, he laid out his vision for the United States. In…
Trump Can Appear on Ballot Despite Engaging in Insurrection, Colorado Judge Rules
Rich Graessle/Icon SMI/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the days after the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, some legal experts began to speculate that a little-known constitutional provision might be used to block President Donald Trump from ever serving a second term.…
Donald Trump Is Reportedly Planning an Anti-Immigrant “Blitz”
Donald Trump in Kissimmee, Fla. on Nov. 4.Kyle Mazza/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If Donald Trump wins back the presidency, he plans to quickly detain millions of undocumented immigrants in vast camps in Texas, try to end birthright citizenship, renew a version of…
A Chinese Mogul Who Penetrated Trumpworld Was Investigated by FBI Counterintelligence Agents
Mother Jones illustration; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In 2019, Guo Wengui was building a political empire in the United States. Guo—a real estate mogul who had recently fled China and styled himself as a leading critic of the Chinese Communist…
Donald Trump Freed a Convicted Medicare Fraudster. The Justice Department Wants Him Back.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a Thursday in September 2019, Philip Esformes arrived for his sentencing at the federal courthouse in downtown Miami looking pale and gaunt. The previous April, after an eight-week trial, Esformes, heir to a large, successful chain of nursing…