This Supreme Court Murder Case Could Completely Change Tribal Sovereignty in Oklahoma
Mother Jones illustration; Oklahoma Department of Corrections/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Patrick Murphy didn’t say he was innocent. In the summer of 1999, when Murphy, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of eastern Oklahoma, killed his girlfriend’s ex-lover, also a Creek member, slashing his throat and cutting off his…
How Ferguson Prepared DeRay Mckesson for Trump
Patrick Semansky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the waning years of the Obama administration, a new generation of black activists emerged with a simple refrain for the streets and the tweets: Black lives matter. That rallying cry would go on to spark an international organization led by black women, several lists of policy…
Joy to the World! Four New Christmas Albums You Won’t Want to Re-Gift
Los Straightjackets Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Does the mere thought of Christmas music make you queasy? That’s understandable, given how aggressively cheerful or shamelessly sentimental much of it is. Despair not! Here are four releases that won’t induce nausea and may even make the holidays easier to bear, from…
The Green New Deal Is Really Popular—Even Among Republicans
Earlier this month, protesters from the Sunrise Movement, an environmental advocacy group, staged a protest inside Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)’s office.Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Green New Deal is the most popular policy hardly anyone has heard of yet. Eighty-two percent…
Michael Flynn Sentencing Delayed So He Can Cooperate Further With Mueller Probe
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a dramatic court hearing on Tuesday, a federal judge delayed the sentencing of Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, so he could continue cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The retired lieutenant general, who was fired from his position as the…
Trump 4.0: “Other Sources” Will Pay For the Wall
Michael Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. First Mexico was going to pay for it. Then NAFTA 2.0 was going to be so awesome that Mexico would pay for it in increased trade—or tariffs—or something. Then Congress had to pay for it, but Mexico would reimburse us someday…