The Secret Plan to Strike Down US Gun Laws
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. For decades, McLean Bible Church has served as the place of worship for many of DC’s Republican elite. The sprawling evangelical megachurch…
What It’s Like to Run for Office as a Young, Blind Person
Mother Jones illustration; Courtesy Madeline Ryan Smith Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. If not for her partner driving her, Madeline Ryan Smith isn’t sure how she’d be able to campaign across the four counties she hopes to represent in Georgia’s state House. Smith…
JD Vance Once Said “Some People Who Voted for Trump Were Racists”
Screenshot/UChicago IoP/YouTube Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In early February 2017, just as Donald Trump was settling into the White House, the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics snagged a special guest for an event: JD Vance. His bestselling book Hillbilly Elegy had…
Joe Arpaio Still Hasn’t Made Peace With His Own Demise
Mother Jones; Will Seberger/Zuma; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When former president Donald Trump appeared at Dream City church in Phoenix in early June, he was visited on stage by a ghost from his past. “Do you remember you had your sheriff,…
Biden’s Call for Supreme Court Reform Is Long Overdue
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. President Joe Biden called for a series of major reforms to the Supreme Court on Monday that would counteract the unchecked power of its conservative supermajority. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, which was…
Why a Kamala Harris Victory Could Prove Critical for the Health of the Planet
Harris speaks at the American Federation of Teachers convention in Houston, July 25, 2024.Jerome Hicks/ZUMA This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Vice President Kamala Harris all but locked up the Democratic presidential nomination last Sunday. It was also, incidentally, the single hottest day in this planet’s history. That inauspicious timing reveals…