At Trump Impeachment II, the Republican Party Is Also on Trial
/AP 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.Bruce Castor ambled and rambled through an opening argument that at times was close to incomprehensible. Only the writers for Saturday Night Live could have found it useful. David Schoen angrily…
Live Blog: Democrats Make the Case for Convicting Trump
Mother Jones illustration; Michael Brochstein/Sipa/AP; 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.Welcome back to Mother Jones’ live coverage of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. Day two will see Democrats lay out the case for a Senate…
The Pentagon Finally Admits It Has an Extremism Problem in the Ranks. But Fixing It Won’t Be Easy.
Defense Department Press Secretary John Kirby briefs reporters at the Pentagon.Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/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.Extremism in the military is not a new problem, but the involvement of at least two-dozen veterans and…
Trump’s Own Lawyer Argues That “Tired” and “Fed up” Voters Kicked Trump Out of Office
Chip Somodevilla/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.Donald Trump spent the dying weeks of his presidency vehemently denying the obvious fact that he had lost the 2020 election. In fact, his insistence that his “stolen victory”…
Will Someone Please Explain What the Heck Trump’s Opening Defense Was About?
US Senate TV/CNP/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.Bruce Castor, former President Trump’s impeachment attorney—and the former Pennsylvania attorney general who is best known for declining to prosecute Bill Cosby—opened his defense with a befuddling, 28-minute,…
GOP Senators Who Backed an Extremist Interior Secretary Are Rejecting Biden’s Pick
Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.)Tom Williams/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. This story was originally published by Huffington Post and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republican senators have settled on their messaging for President…