A Grand Jury Just Indicted Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort on New Charges
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Friday isn’t over yet. BREAKING: A federal Grand Jury has returned a new superseding indictment in the Manafort case. The indictment says that Manafort, “secretly retained a group of former senior European politicians to take positions favorable to Ukraine, including by lobbying in the United…
Research Has Found A Vaccine For BS
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The other day I was talking to someone I love when suddenly, a gulf opened up between my reality and hers. She was, I realized, a vaccine skeptic. Not an active denier, really—just, as she put it, someone who “doesn’t know where the…
We Asked Young Conservatives, “How Would You Stop Gun Violence?” Their Answers Were Amazing.
Cade Plotts, center, of Ohio University, listens to President Trump address the Conservative Political Action Conference via video at the Gaylord National Resort.Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, the message from students around America rang loud and clear: Lawmakers must address gun control. Students…
Quote of the Day: Next Time, Health Care Reform Will Be a Real War
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From Harold Pollack, mild-mannered professor at the University of Chicago, on the strategy for health care reform when Democrats return to power: Democrats will be much more ruthless the next time around. Pollack explains this further in more academic tones, but I’m not sure he…
Trump Clearly Doesn’t Understand Anything About the Paris Climate Accord
Ron Sachs/CNP via Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Does Donald Trump have any idea what the Paris climate accord really does? Based on the president’s speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, it seems unlikely. In his longest remarks on the subject since announcing last June that he would…
Kids Have Alway Led the Way for Progress. The Push for Gun Control Is No Different.
Stop Mass Incarcerations Network sponsored a children’s march demanding accountability on the one year anniversary of Tamir Rice’s death at the hands of the Cleveland police. Andy Katz/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., last week, it quickly became clear…