Donald Trump Has a New Website But It’s Bad
The Right View/ZUMA Wire Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.When then-President Donald Trump permanently lost his tweeting privileges in January, he entered uncertain territory: How would the second president ever to have a Twitter account communicate…
The Pushback Worked. Biden Will Raise the Refugee Cap to What He Originally Promised.
HAMDAYET, SUDAN – DECEMBER 7: Refugees from the Tigray region of Ethiopia board buses to a Um Rakuba refugee camp after spending days to weeks at a UNHCR reception center located in the east Sudanese border village of Hamdayet.Byron Smith/Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother…
Why Body Cameras Can Still Fail to Hold Police Accountable
Gerry Broome/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On April 21, while attempting to serve a warrant, North Carolina police shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old Black man in Elizabeth City. The entire incident was…
People Are Pulling Some Real Weird-Ass Shit Out of Rivers These Days
Happy Sunday. I’m pleased to inform you that people have been pulling some really weird things out of rivers. In late April, the Fish and Wildlife Service caught—and swiftly released—a 240-pound, 6-foot-10-inch fish in the Detroit River. The female sturgeon is estimated to be more than a century old. “She likely hatched in the Detroit…
New Polls: It Turns Out Americans Like a Normal, Boring President
Drew Angerer/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Americans largely approve of Joe Biden’s performance as president so far, two new polls indicate. The first, released Sunday by ABC and Ipsos, surveyed 513 adults and showed that…
Joe Biden Rolls Out the Sleepy New Deal
Jim Watson/Pool/AFP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In his Wednesday night address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden made a quiet but sustained case for a different sort of American economy. He called…