New York to Restore Voting Rights to Thousands of Ex-Felons
A demonstrator holds a sign during a rally to demand voting reform in New York on March 18, 2018. Albin Lohr-Jones/Sipa USA/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Andrew Cuomo, New York’s Democratic governor, announced on Wednesday that he plans to restore voting rights to ex-felons on parole through an executive…
Support for Abortion Rights Among the Young Hasn’t Changed Much
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ed Kilgore draws my attention to a new PRRI survey which suggests that young people are becoming friendlier toward abortion rights. Most Americans say their own views have not changed on the issue in recent years….The pattern among young Americans, however, is unique. Approximately one-third…
Gotta Keep Baby Formula Behind the Counter
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I was just at CVS. When I went to pay, I noticed all the baby formula was behind the counter, like Sudafed and cigarettes. Why? “Because poor people steal it a lot,” the clerk told me. Am I the last person in America to know…
“I Will Never Drink Again”
Mother Jones; gradyreese/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Join us: We’ll be discussing the Mother Jones investigation of the link between alcohol and breast cancer live with reporter Stephanie Mencimer this week. Tune in to our Facebook page at 4 p.m. EST on Thursday, April 19. Mary Roth was diagnosed with breast…
A Top Trump Official Says Syrian Refugees Don’t Want to Come to the US. In Reality, We’ve Effectively Banned Them.
Syrian refugees in a refugee camp on the Turkey-Syria border in 2015.Emrah Gurel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Only 11 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the United States this year, down from more than 2,400 during the same period in 2017, even though Syria remains convulsed by a civil…
How Sally Kohn’s “The Opposite of Hate” Became a Referendum on White Privilege
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On April 10, progressive political commentator Sally Kohn released her first book The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity. I interviewed Kohn about what she learned from researching the origins and dynamics of hate, and particularly how she maintains…