Watch Our Exclusive Studio Interview With “March for Our Lives” Leaders
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mother Jones recently invited three top student leaders from the March for Our Lives movement into our studio to mark the six-month anniversary of the Parkland shooting, and to talk about what they learned during their national “Road to Change” tour, which made its final…
6 Months Later, Parkland Teens Are Still Fighting Like Hell
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One week after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February, student survivors, outraged with Washington’s “thoughts and prayers,” took to CNN to declare politicians complicit in the deaths of their classmates. Just one month later, those same students organized nationwide “March for…
NRA Says It Could Soon Go Broke in New Court Filing
Zach D Roberts/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the National Rifle Association remains curiously silent in response to questions over its ties to an alleged Russian spy, it appears the gun lobby group is now facing another major headache—one the group claims directly threatens its very existence. In a…
Gun Control Activist Lucy McBath Wins Democratic Nomination for Congress
Lucy McBath speaks at an Atlanta gun control rally in 2013.Jaime Henry-White/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By nearly every measure, Lucy McBath wasn’t supposed to get this far in the Democratic race for Congress in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. She’s a mom who became a national advocate against gun…
Georgia’s GOP Primary Is Taking Crazy to a New Level
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you want to see just how politically polarized America is right now, take a look at Georgia. Stacey Abrams, a black woman who has earned endorsements from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, won the Democratic primary for governor—and in November she’ll face whichever Republican wins a runoff…
Why Russian Spies Really Like American Universities
Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia in 2013.AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Under the alias Cynthia Murphy, Russian spy Lydia Guryeva…