Voters in this Colorado County Just Sent Betsy DeVos a Helluva Message
On Tuesday night, the longstanding fight over a controversial voucher program in Douglas County, Colorado, appeared to have come to an end. In a local school board election that has found its way into the national debate over voucher programs, four anti-voucher candidates—Chris Schor, Kevin Leung, Anthony Graziano, and Krista Holtzmann—defeated reform-supporting candidates in a landslide. The election…
“We Didn’t Have to Suffer Like That”: Inside a Texas Prison During Hurricane Harvey
Mother Jones Illustration; Bruno Monteny/Getty; kodda/Getty In late August, Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the southeast Texas coast bringing with it extreme winds and dropping more than four feet of rain across Houston and the surrounding area. The catastrophic flooding caused thousands to evacuate, including many state prisoners who were moved to drier and safer facilities elsewhere…
How Donald Trump Is Remaking the Federal Courts in His Own Image
Now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch speaks as President Donald Trump looks on during an April ceremony in the White House Rose Garden.Olivier Douliery/Abaca/Sipa/AP When Donald Trump took office, he inherited more than 100 federal judicial vacancies. It was a nearly unprecedented number, roughly twice the number that President Barack Obama inherited…
Three Things to Know About Obamacare
Here are three little public service announcements about Obamacare: Enrollment is ahead of last year. But after the first week, things will get tougher. If you know anyone who uses Obamacare, tell them to get going NOW NOW NOW. Most of them have only until December 15 to sign up, and that will arrive sooner…
Putin’s Trolls Used the Texas Church Massacre to Sow More Chaos
Mother Jones illustration False information inundated social media after Sunday’s mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and Russian trolls were in the thick of it. Conspiracy theorists like Mike Cernovich led the way, falsely branding shooter Devin Patrick Kelly as a member of the far-left antifa movement, and the Russian media outlet RT America had…
Corey Lewandowski “Forgot” He Gave Carter Page Permission for Russia Trip
Trump campaign advisor Carter Page during a trip to Moscow in December 2016.Korotayev Artyom/TASS via ZUMA Carter Page, the idiot cousin of the Trump campaign, went on a trip to Russia last June. It was, he insists, a personal visit, not something done on behalf of the campaign. And he didn’t talk to any Russian…