This Kafkaesque Nightmare Shows Just How Absurd the Travel Ban Is
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Editor’s Note: On the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, Mother Jones asked readers to share their stories about how the ban has affected them. We’re following up with readers and publishing their stories. You can share your own story at the bottom of this…
50 Years After DC Burned, the Injustices That Caused the Riots Are as Urgent as Ever
Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For a moment, the peace seemed to hold. It was the evening of April 4, 1968, and Martin Luther King Jr. had just been killed by a gunman in Memphis. An angry crowd had gathered at 14th and U streets NW, the nexus…
How the EPA Abandoned This Polluted Town
A man holds a lump of coal ashJay Reeves/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The residents of Uniontown, a poor, majority-black town in rural Alabama, are used to being ignored by the federal government. For years they have fought against the Arrowhead landfill, a site that they say is negatively impacting the…
50 Years After Their Historic Strike, Memphis Sanitation Workers Are Still Fighting
Bishop Julian Smith (left) and Rev. Ralph Abernathy (right) flank Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during a civil rights march in Memphis on March 28, 1968.Jack Thornell/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. February 1, 1968, was a dreary day in Memphis, Tennessee. As a storm rolled over the city, blanketing…
Watch Members of Congress Go Off on Betsy DeVos at a Budget Hearing
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos waits to testify before a House Committee on Appropriation subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday morning, Democratic lawmakers seized an opportunity to press Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on everything from racial bias in student discipline to guns in schools as she defended a proposed…
The FBI Is Too White—And It Considers That a “Huge Operational Risk”
FBI Director Christopher Wray. Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. For the FBI, the long-standing failure to diversify its ranks is nothing short of “a huge operational risk,” according to one senior official, something that compromises the agency’s ability…