Roger Stone’s Latest Mess: His Oath Keeper Bodyguards Arrested in Capitol Attack
Roger StoneCaroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Roger Stone has an Oath Keeper problem. In recent days the FBI arrested two men, Joshua James, the owner of a cleaning services company in Alabama, and…
Trump’s Wealth Test for Immigrants Is Dead
Immigrants arrive at Ellis Island in New York around 1900. Corbis/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In June 2018, White House adviser Stephen Miller emailed Francis Cissna, who oversaw the country’s legal immigration system at US…
Gab’s CEO Courted Prominent Anti-Semites for His Site
Jaap Arriens /Sipa via AP Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Since 2016, when Andrew Torba founded Gab, a Twitter clone that boasts that it “champions free speech,” it has served as a haven for alt-righters,…
The COVID Bill Shows Democrats Know How to Fight Economic Inequality
Oliver Contreras/Zumapress Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Since kicking off his run for president, Joe Biden has promised to create a more equitable American economy, coining a slogan for the legislative overhauls that it will take…
Environmentalists Urge Biden To Slash Carbon Emissions in Half by 2030
Joshua Roberts/Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US needs to commit to slashing its planet-heating emissions by at least…
Stacey Abrams Has a Plan to Dismantle the Filibuster and Protect Voting Rights
Stacey Abrams speaks at campaign event for Rev. Raphael Warnock in Atlanta on November 3.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.As Republicans in the Georgia state legislature passed a series…