Trump Companies Convicted on All Nine Counts in Criminal Tax Fraud Trial
Mother Jones; Mario Tama/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A New York City jury has convicted the Trump Organization on criminal tax fraud charges. While former President Donald Trump was not personally on trial, he owned and closely oversaw the two corporate entities at…
Family of Fallen Jan. 6 Officer Snub McCarthy and McConnell at Gold Medal Ceremony
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, at a ceremony to commemorate law enforcement officials who responded to the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, several award recipients and their families snubbed the nation’s top Republicans, Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell. Among those…
From Wedding Websites to ‘Whites Only’: Will the Supreme Court OK Economic Discrimination?
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Monday, the Supreme Court heard 303 Creative v. Elenis, a case brought by a Colorado designer who only will create wedding websites for opposite-sex couples—not same-sex ones—and wants to advertise…
Con Law: How a Fake Document Could Help the Supreme Court Diminish our Democracy
Grace Molteni/Mother Jones; Bettmann/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Three decades after the Constitution was drafted in Philadelphia, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams set about assembling the government’s official Journal of the Convention. Missing from the records was the proposal submitted by Charles…
Dem Dysfunction, Tabloid Hellscapes, Crime: How New York Almost Went Red
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A month or so before the election, the New York Post‘s sensationalism remained wide-ranging. The old saying “If it bleeds it ledes” was still true on many days. Headlines warned of the dystopian (“Blade Runner”) and the apocalyptic (“Holy Hell”), or…
How the New York State Democratic Party Lost Its Grassroots—and Then the US House
Jay Jacobs, the New York State Democratic Party chair.Lev Radin/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It was two weeks before the New York statewide June primary, when Erica Vladimer realized a powerful member of her own party was working against her. Vladimer was campaigning to…