If You’re 16 or 17, We Want to Hear Your Ideas for Repairing America
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Let’s face it, we are all struggling. The devastation from the last four years, the pandemic, the climate crisis, the terrifying shredding of the norms we thought would somehow endure and protect our democracy, all seem to be…
How Will We Know if a COVID-19 Vaccine Is Safe? Because Scientists Will Tell Us.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The first COVID-19 vaccines will be approved in the next few months, but many Americans say they won’t immediately take them. A STAT/Harris poll this week found that 42 percent of respondents don’t trust the vaccines in development—up…
Report: Trump Wants to Fire FBI Director For Not Breaking the Rules Enough
FBI Director Christopher Wray.Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This again? President Trump and his advisers have repeatedly discussed whether to fire FBI Director Christopher A. Wray after Election Day — a scenario that also could imperil the tenure…
DNI Ratcliffe Says Iran Sent Menacing Emails Claiming to Be From Proud Boys—But Leaves a Lot Unclear
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe testifies before a US Senate Intelligence Committee.Andrew Harnik/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Reports circulated yesterday that the Proud Boys—or at least people claiming to be in the violent far-right hate group—were emailing voters…
ICE Just Announced It Will Start to Deport People More Quickly—and Without Ever Seeing a Judge
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee waves to activists while boarding a flight in Yakima, Washington.David Ryder/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Immigration and Customs Enforcement just announced its agents can begin fast-track deportations of certain immigrants who can’t prove they’ve…
A State Department Memo Suggests It’s About to Accuse Prominent Human Rights Groups of “Anti-Semitism”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in 2019.Cheriss May/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The State Department is finalizing a report that would declare advocacy groups like Human Rights Watch to be “anti-Semitic,” a designation that…