Documents Point to Illegal Campaign Coordination Between Trump and the NRA
NRA annual convention in Dallas, May 2018Sue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The National Rifle Association spent $30 million to help elect Donald Trump—more than any other independent conservative group. Most of that sum went toward television advertising, but a political message loses its power if it fails to…
The Mueller Investigation Grows More Ominous for Trump and His Inner Circle
Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs a closed-door meeting with US senators about Russia and the Trump campaign, June 2017J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “The time that he can get away with lying to the American people all the time and evading accountability is coming to an end.”…
Trump’s “Enemy of the People” Rhetoric Is Endangering Journalists’ Lives
Mother Jones illustration; Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since he campaigned for the White House, Donald Trump has attacked news outlets for negative reporting, singled out individual journalists for scorn, and turned his battle cry against “fake news”—a.k.a. reporting he dislikes—virtually into a personal brand.…
Today It Locks Up Immigrants. But CoreCivic’s Roots Lie in the Brutal Past of America’s Prisons.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2015, I spent four months working undercover as a guard at a medium-security Louisiana prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) with the aim of reporting on the conditions inside a private prison for Mother Jones. Shortly after I began, I was shown…
The Trump Official Overseeing Migrant Girls’ Health Care Once Wrote He Couldn’t “Support Abortion for Any Reason”
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Lloyd’s anti-abortion crusade began when, as a young man, he found himself faced with a partner’s unexpected pregnancy. Many years later, Lloyd would take his battle to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, where, as its leader…
400,000 Scientists All Over the World Have Been Published in Fake Journals
View of large amount of documents, newspapers, and books in classic library. A magnifying glass seen on top of books. No people are seen in frame. Shot with a medium format camera.selimaksan/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The organization that uncovered the world of offshore tax havens and rogue international finance…