NY Judges Force Donald and Ivanka Trump to Sit for Deposition in Civil Fraud Case
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.A New York appellate court dealt Donald Trump another blow Thursday when it ruled that the former president and his daughter must sit for sworn depositions in the New York’s civil…
Mass Shootings and Our Never-ending Doomcycle
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The beats are almost always the same. A shooter enters a crowded space with a loaded gun, usually one modified to kill dozens of people in seconds—and usually one that they obtained legally.…
We’re Living Through the Backlash
Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star-Tribune/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Two years ago today, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds. The murder outraged the public, setting off a summer of pepper…
Trump, Cruz Headlining the NRA’s Texas Conference This Weekend. For the Gun Lobby, It’s Déjà-Vu.
Michael Conroy/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On Tuesday, an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The massacre, inflicted on a group all huddled in one classroom, is now the country’s second-deadliest…
How “America First” Crippled the Nation’s Solar Industry
Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The economic theory behind solar tariffs is simple: Solar cells and panels made abroad are often cheaper, thanks to lower manufacturing costs and generous government subsidies from countries like China. So taxing imported panels should give the US solar industry…
The Worst Lawyer in Texas Just Put an End to the Bush Dynasty
Texas Attorney General Ken PaxtonMother Jones illustration; Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.If you were to lay out in one place the Bush family’s contributions over the last half century, it would not be a particularly balanced ledger. In…