Trump’s Lawyer Really Wants Jeff Sessions to Appoint a Second Special Counsel to Investigate the FBI
Jay Sekulow, a member of President Trump’s personal legal team, in Virginia in October 2015 for a Republican presidential candidate forum.Steve Helber/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday he is considering bowing to demands from congressional Republicans who have called for the appointment of a second…
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…