How Facebook Screwed Us All
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This essay is the cover story for our March/April issue. (Subscribe here!) Portions of it appeared earlier here and here. A country riven by ethnic tension. Spontaneous protests driven by viral memes. Violence and riots fueled by hateful fake-news posts, often about “terrorism” by marginalized…
The One Thing All the 2020 Democratic Candidates Agree They Hate
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The field of Democratic candidates running for president in 2020 is still taking shape, but so far the contenders have agreed on one policy: Cash from corporate political action committees (PACs) is bad. That’s not an entirely new idea—in 2008 and 2012…
The NRA Welcomed Maria Butina—Even As She Worked to Arm Anti-American Thugs Abroad
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The American public has continued to know little about Maria Butina, who pleaded guilty in December to participating in a foreign conspiracy against the United States. Not much has emerged about the confessed Russian agent’s political activities beyond her efforts to build ties with Republican leaders…
David Duke Has a New Favorite Candidate for 2020: Tulsi Gabbard
Win McNamee/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since launching her campaign for president on January 11, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has had to weather one controversy after another, from a shakeup in her campaign leadership to resurfaced allegations of her ties with nationalists and foreign autocrats. Tuesday brought more…
Sherrod Brown Could Be Bernie Sanders’ Biggest Threat in 2020
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2015, Sherrod Brown didn’t want to be president. “I know you don’t believe this, but I don’t really think about it all that much,” he told the Washington Post at the time. Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, a longtime friend of the Ohio…
Trump Returns to Making False Claims About Rampant Voter Fraud
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump made unfounded claims about Texas voters on Sunday morning, reiterating falsely that “voter fraud is rampant” across the United States—a claim he has made repeatedly during his campaign and two years in office. Trump tweeted, without evidence, that “58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000…