To Fight Democrats’ First Bill, GOP Calls in Discredited Advocates of Voter Suppression
Demonstrators protest the second meeting of President Donald Trump’s election integrity commission on September 12, 2017, in Manchester, New Hampshire.Holly Ramer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With the House of Representatives set to debate its first legislation of the new session on Tuesday, Republicans are calling in two “expert witnesses” to…
Berkeley Has No More Forks to Give
bbstudio_aad/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It might be a good time to invest in a coffee thermos, at least if you live in Berkeley, California: Its city council unanimously passed an ordinance on January 22 to limit restaurants and food vendors from using single-use foodware like plastic-lined paper cups and…
Why Trump’s Plan to Make Asylum-Seekers Wait in Dangerous Mexican Border Cities May Be Illegal
Pedestrians pass a makeshift encampment where migrants seeking asylum wait in January on a bridge connecting Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas.Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration is set to begin its latest crackdown on asylum-seekers, forcing some of them to wait in Mexico instead of letting them make their cases for…
Ocasio-Cortez Takes Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to Task for Conference Promoting Climate Denial
Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) sent a letter to three of the nation’s biggest tech companies on Monday decrying their sponsorship of a conference this month that promoted climate change denial. As Mother Jones reported last week, Google, Facebook, and…
Could President Sherrod Brown Revive the Labor Movement?
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at the mothership, Kara Voght has a nice profile today of Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown: Brown spent many Fridays at the local steel and autoworkers unions, where he learned about the financial squeeze that workers endured. “I heard some…
If You Thought the Polar Vortex Was Bad, What’s Happening Now Is Genuinely Shocking
Temperatures in Chicago are expected to plunge 20 degrees below zero.chrip0/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A deadly cold snap is hitting the Midwest, plunging roughly 200 million people into one of the most frigid weeks on record. Parts of Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois will see temperatures plunge up…