Federal Judge Rips Trump Administration Over Census Citizenship Question
Opponents of the citizenship question demonstrate outside the US District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan on Tuesday.Ari Berman/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge said Tuesday that there was a “strong showing of bath faith” by the Trump administration in adding a…
Sorrow, Resilience, and Tenderness: Surviving the Wait at the US-Mexico Border
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every day, migrants arrive at the US-Mexico border hoping to gain entry and find safety. But before they are processed, they must wait—usually for days, sometimes in extreme heat and inhospitable conditions. Mother Jones reporter Noah Lanard and I spent nearly a week at the border…
Teens Aren’t Giving Democrats a Pass on Gun Control Legislation
Student activists meet with Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) during their day of lobbying at the Capitol on June 28, 2018./Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fifteen-year-old Eden Hebron had never lobbied Congress before last Thursday—and before February 14, when three of her classmates were murdered…
If You Could Say Anything to Scott Pruitt’s Face What Would It Be? This Woman Got Her Chance.
Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Kristin Mink, a sixth-grade teacher at Sidwell Friends School, was eating lunch with her 2-year-old son at a restaurant in Washington, DC, when she noticed Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt sitting three tables away. “He’s corrupt, he’s a liar, he’s a climate change…
We Are All Social Democrats Now
G. Ronald Lopez via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a week since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th congressional district, and she’s still getting monster attention in the press. I have to admit I’m a little unclear on why this is. Her win was…
We’re About as Different From Each Other As We’ve Always Been
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tyler Cowen linked yesterday to a new paper called “Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States over Time.” The object of the paper is to see if people of different races, genders, and incomes have become more culturally distant from each other over the…