Republicans Promised to Simplify the Tax Code. They’re Making It Way More Complicated.
President Donald Trump kisses a printed “postcard” tax form at a White House meeting in November with Speaker Paul Ryan, left, and Rep. Kevin Brady, right.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives officially passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut that permanently helps corporations, while providing temporary…
The Generic Ballot Is Predicting a Republican Bloodbath Next Year
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I am generally a skeptic of the “generic ballot” question. This is the one that asks if you plan to vote for a Democrat or a Republican in an upcoming congressional election, and Democrats always seem to hold a big lead. But then that lead…
“Don’t Forget About Me, Okay?”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Julia Lurie didn’t tell her parents that she was looking for drug dealers until afterward. She had been reporting on the opioid epidemic for nearly a year by this point, and she’d just spent a chunk of time in Baltimore and surrounding suburban and rural…
Festival of Slights, the 8th Night: Charlottesville
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Happy Hanukkah! Mother Jones is celebrating this year’s festival of lights with a festival of slights. Specifically, President Donald Trump’s slights toward the Jewish people. When white nationalists marched on Charlottesville in August to protest the proposed removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee,…
When Using Heroin With a Friend Gets You Charged With Murder
iStock/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In early August 2013, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police arrested Jarret McCasland, then 24, ostensibly for a minor traffic violation. But at the station, they began questioning him about the death of his girlfriend, Flavia Cardenas. “Why are you treating me like this?” he…
A Brief, Blood-Boiling History of the Opioid Epidemic
A Maryland cop counts pill capsules suspected to contain heroin.Lexey Swall/Grain Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The scale of the overdose epidemic is hard to fathom. In 2016, overdoses claimed 64,000 lives—more than the US military casualties in Vietnam and Iraq combined. The origins of today’s crisis, a perfect…