Jeff Sessions Has a Huge Conflict of Interest in a Federal Bribery Case—and It Keeps Getting Worse
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Alabama’s junior senator, Jeff Sessions was far more involved than previously known in helping two of his top contributors derail a federal environmental cleanup effort, according to records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Mother Jones and the Project…
The Very Strange Case of Two Russian Gun Lovers, the NRA, and Donald Trump
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For more than a year now, reports have trickled out about deepening ties among prominent members of the National Rifle Association, conservative Republicans, a budding gun-rights movement in Russia—and their convergence in the Trump campaign. Now attention is focused around a middle-aged…
Jessica Jones Had Her #MeToo Moment in Season One. Now She’s Having an Identity Crisis.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jessica Jones is the hero we need in the #MeToo era, however reluctant she may be. Marvel’s misanthropic private eye with super strength returns to Netflix on Thursday—International Women’s Day—and the second season of Jessica Jones takes a markedly new turn. Having taken down the…
America’s Police Chiefs Call BS on Arming Teachers
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. J. Thomas Manger, police chief of Montgomery County, Maryland, testifies at a 2009 hearing on Capitol Hill. Manuel Balce/APIn the roughly three weeks since a deranged 19-year-old shot up a Florida high school, leaving 17 people dead, President Donald Trump has been peddling a favorite…
The Real Reason Pizza Hut Just Rolled Out the Extra-Cheesy
Cheesy enough for you?Courtesy of Pizza Hut Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember “stuffed-crust” pizza? Donald Trump likely does. In this Pizza Hut ad from the 1990s, the future president demonstrates the “crust-first” method: Cramming more cheese into products is a hoary and enduring fast-food tactic. Just last month, Pizza…
What Happened in Moscow: The Inside Story of How Trump’s Obsession With Putin Began
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is the first of two excerpts adapted from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones. The book will be…