Roger Stone’s Super-PAC Paid the Manhattan Madam’s Mom During the 2016 Campaign
Roger Stone and Kristin Davis leave court in New York on March 30, 2017. Seth Wenig/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Why did a super-PAC run by longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone pay nearly $5,000 to the mother of Kristin Davis, the so-called “Manhattan Madam,” in July 2016? This may…
Watch Our Exclusive Studio Interview With “March for Our Lives” Leaders
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mother Jones recently invited three top student leaders from the March for Our Lives movement into our studio to mark the six-month anniversary of the Parkland shooting, and to talk about what they learned during their national “Road to Change” tour, which made its final…
Internal ICE Emails Show How the Government Set a Trap for Undocumented Spouses of US Citizens
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers debrief after operations to arrest undocumented immigrants in New York in April. John Moore/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On January 30, Lucimar de Souza, an undocumented immigrant from Brazil, went into a US Citizenship and Immigration Services office to prove her marriage to an American citizen was legitimate.…
When Sarah Sanders and the ACLU Teamed Up for Voting Rights
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders conducts a briefing on August 15.Ron Sachs/CNP/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. As the midterm elections approach, Republican state officials and lawmakers have stepped up efforts to block students from voting in their college towns. Republicans…
It Looks Like the Hush Money to Stormy Daniels Might Be a Big-Time Campaign Finance Violation After All
Stormy Daniels: Clinton Wallace/Globe Photos/ZUMA; Michael Cohen: Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal reported something interesting today about Michael Cohen: back in September 2016, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer contacted him about making a hush money payment to keep Stormy quiet about her affair…
Are Canadians Dying of Despair Too?
Carroll & Carroll/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The CDC reports today that about 72,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year. Of that, 49,000 died of opioid overdoses. That’s an opioid overdose rate of 15 per 100,000. But as Keith Humphreys pointed out last night, 4,000 people…