Key Arizona Republican Freaks Out Over “Another Generation of DACA-like People”
Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.)Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a House hearing on immigration Tuesday, Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) accused most asylum seekers of immigration fraud and suggested that unaccompanied children who reach the United States are likely to become MS-13 gang members. She warned that if the asylum…
Racism Is Worse Than Anti-Racism. Why Is This So Hard?
Aaron Schlossberg hiding from the press behind his now infamous umbrella. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at National Review, Dan McLaughlin writes about Aaron Schlossberg, the New York lawyer caught on video multiple times screaming racial epithets at people: Naturally Schlossberg lit up Twitter and also provoked plenty…
Last Night Was Huge for Black Women in Georgia—and Not Just Because of Stacey Abrams
McBath at a gun violence rally in 2013.Jaime Henry-White/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There was plenty for progressives to celebrate on Tuesday night in Georgia—and it was a moment that signaled a huge milestone in black women’s political power ahead of November. In a downtown Atlanta Sheraton packed with…
Russia’s Campaign to Help Trump Win Was Just the Start
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former FBI special agent Clint Watts was tracking Islamic State terrorists and their propaganda on Twitter in 2014 when he first encountered a different kind of troll. These accounts weren’t trying to recruit fighters for jihad. They were promoting an…
Good Job Destroying Wild Plants and Animals, Humans. Only 17 Percent Left to Go!
duncan1890/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world’s…
The Trump Administration Doesn’t Want Irish People to Know That Alcohol Causes Cancer
Trump wine on display at a Trump campaign rally in March 2016Richard Graulich/Palm Beach Post via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is a teetotaler. He has never had a drink, he says, because he saw what booze did to his beloved older brother Freddy, an alcoholic…