Trump’s Impeachment Trial Matters, Even If He Dodges Conviction
Trump speaks to supports at his Save America Rally before supporters march to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 where some engage in a deadly riot. Carol Guzy/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.The second…
How Black Rifle Coffee Company Made Itself One of the Right’s Biggest Brands
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 the early moments of the insurrection on Capitol Hill, there was a way to see it as something of a joke—a serious one with important consequences, but still just a…
A Last-Minute Trump Move Threatens to Send Released Prisoners Back to Prison After the Pandemic
Nikki Kahn/Washington Post/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.On his way out the door of the White House, President Donald Trump issued leases for Arctic oil drilling, attacked civil rights protections, and commuted the sentences of his…
Damage Wrought by Trump’s Border Wall “Will Not Ever Be Remediated or Mitigated”
Roberto E. Rosales/ Albuquerque Journal/ 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 is the first of three installments published by High Country News and Arizona Public Media and is reproduced here as part of the…
New Research Confirms the British COVID-19 Variant Is Running Rampant Across the US
Andreas Arnold/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.In mid-January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that a coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom was likely going to, as the New York…
Report: Trump Campaign Paid an Arizona Lawmaker Amidst Efforts to Overturn State Election Results
Mark Finchem (left) at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, Arizona.Gage Skidmore/Johnny Louis/Wikimedia Commons/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.A Republican member of the Arizona state legislature took more than $6,000 from the Trump campaign in…