Private Documents Reveal What Wall Street Really Thinks About Elizabeth Warren
Barcroft Media/Getty A major bank that Elizabeth Warren once sharply criticized has some stark warnings for Wall Street investors about her potential presidency. Warren’s corporate tax plan, according to one memo the bank circulated, would “directly impact corporate earnings.” Her nine-point eligibility test for international trading partners—which requires a commitment to protect religious freedom and…
Elizabeth Warren’s New Bankruptcy Plan Is a Big Dig at Joe Biden
Chris Carlson/Associated Press On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren released a plan for, in her campaign’s words, “fixing our bankruptcy system to give people a second chance.” Warren, who taught bankruptcy law at Harvard and spent years as a consumer advocate on the matter, is returning to the issue that drew her into politics. But less than one…
How Trump’s Trade War Is Making Lobbyists Rich and Slamming Small Businesses
Richard Graulich/ZUMA This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Mike Elrod voted for Donald Trump in 2016, hoping for a break from tight government oversight that…
How the 2010s Brought Back Strikes, School Walkouts, and Social Movements
Occupy Wall Street protesters wave signs and banners outside the Park Avenue home of JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon in October 2011.Andrew Burton/AP With economic inequality at the highest levels in decades, the climate in crisis, and a political system often unable to address popular demands or even elect the people’s choice, the last…
Monsters of the 2010s: Donald Sterling
Armando Arorizo/Zuma The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Five years ago, a secret recording of a real estate mogul’s racist remarks erupted around the internet and upended the National Basketball Association. Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling—who paid $2.7 million to settle a housing discrimination lawsuit filed…
The Best TV Show About Racism Was a Comic-Book Fantasia. Here’s How “Watchmen” Did It.
HBO On the day HBO’s Watchmen resurrected a race war, a producer brought a priest onto the set in Georgia to pray with cast members. This was going to be the show’s opening sequence, a depiction of the Tulsa massacre of 1921. White people in Klan attire, on horseback. Black folks getting gunned down indiscriminately.…