This Is What Some Parkland Students and Their Families Did in DC on the Night Before the March
Attendees begin to file into the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., for the evening’s “March for Our Lives” interfaith vigil and service on Friday, March 23, 2018Kara Voght/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday evening, Philip Schentrup of Parkland, Florida, stood behind the lectern in Washington’s National Cathedral…
Uber Really Shouldn’t Be In the Driverless Car Business
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last night I mentioned something to a friend about the driverless car crash in Arizona: The fact that it’s an Uber car doesn’t surprise me. They’re exactly the kind of company that would cut corners: cheap optics, lousy safety drivers, pushing to drive at night…
He Survived the Las Vegas Massacre. And He’s Protesting for the First Time.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s a long drive from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Salt Lake City, Utah, about six hours of plains, canyons, mountains, and time to think. Royce Christensen, a 22-year old survivor of the Vegas Strip massacre last October, has a lot on his mind. He’s on…
It’s Time to Stop Treating Every Fleeing Teenager Like a Crazed Killer
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. You might wonder why I keep harping on lead and crime. After all, as much as I’d like to get rid of the last remaining traces of environmental lead, the truth is that it’s mostly gone these days. What’s more, the crime wave of the…
19 Years Before Parkland, Columbine Students Tried to Fix America’s Gun Problem
Members of SAFE Students with President Bill Clinton three months after the Columbine massacreSusan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One day in April, two decades before the Parkland massacre, high school senior Ben Gelt was in philosophy class when he heard the news: Gunmen had burst into Columbine High School,…
Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the late summer of 2015, Chris Wilson, the director of research, analytics, and digital strategy for Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, had a conversation with a contractor that left him furious. A widely respected pollster who had taken leave from his firm to work…