California’s Housing Crisis Is So Bad, Families Are Squatting Abandoned Homes Just to Survive
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When I ask Christine Hernandez, a mother of four, slender in stature and bold in manner, how best to scout for abandoned homes—the bleak dwellings with the boarded-up windows and ripped-out drywall, their innards packed with leftover syringes, rotting debris, and the peculiar loot of…
This Kafkaesque Nightmare Shows Just How Absurd the Travel Ban Is
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Editor’s Note: On the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, Mother Jones asked readers to share their stories about how the ban has affected them. We’re following up with readers and publishing their stories. You can share your own story at the bottom of this…
Does Donald Trump Want to Be Dictator of the United States?
The Republican National Convention in July 2016Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It began the day he was sworn in, with his vow to end “American carnage”—a direct echo of his autocratic pronouncement when accepting the Republican nomination that “I alone can fix it.” Donald Trump has chipped away at…
When This Death Row Inmate Decided He Wanted to Die, It Created A Firestorm No One Was Prepared For
Scott Dozier in Ely State Prison.Edgar Barens/The Marshall Project Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the day he had been scheduled to die, Scott Dozier arrived at the visiting room inside Ely State Prison looking edgy and exhausted. He’d been thwarted. For more than a year, he had worked to…
The Number of Homeless People in America Increased for the First Time in 7 Years
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the first time in seven years, the number of people without a safe, regular place to sleep in America has grown. On any given night in 2017, nearly 554,000 people across the country were homeless, just under a 1 percent rise above 2016 levels.…
Festival of Slights, the Third Night: “Holocaust Centers”
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. At this point, you might be so used to the relatively articulate presence of White House spokeswoman…