As COVID-19 Surges in Texas, Pence Visits a Dallas Megachurch
First Baptist Dallas/YouTube For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As coronavirus cases in Texas surge, Vice President Mike Pence spoke on Sunday at an indoor service at a Dallas megachurch. Gov. Greg Abbott, Housing Secretary Ben Carson, and Sen. John Cornyn, and joined the vice president at First…
What Happens When a Massive Racial Justice March on Washington Goes Digital?
Revs. William Barber, left, Jesse Jackson, and Romiah Shart, attend a rally on the east front lawn of the Capitol with members of the Poor People’s Campaign in May, 2018.Tom Williams/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In 1968, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had organized a massive…
Oops—Trump Brought the Wrong Bible to His Church Stunt
President Donald Trump holds a Bible outside St. John’s Church across Lafayette Park from the White House in Washington. Patrick Semansky/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Monday evening, President Donald Trump decided to get a photo-op in front of the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church, just…
“AKA Jane Roe” Shows How the Abortion Fight Steamrolled the Real Norma McCorvey
Norma McCorvey in “AKA Jane Roe”FX For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Toward the end of the new documentary AKA Jane Roe, when Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade fame) makes a self-described “deathbed confession” that she never truly converted to Christianity—she was in it for the…
Trump Asks if Muslims Will Get Special Treatment in Coronavirus Lockdowns
April 17, 2020, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: United States President Donald J. Trump speaks during a press briefing with members of the coronavirus task force in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 17, 2020 in Washington, DC (Credit Image: © Oliver Contreras/CNP via ZUMA Wire) For indispensable reporting on…
Capitalism Is America’s Religion. The Virus Makes That Clear.
President Trump delivers remarks at the White House Easter Egg Roll in April 2019.Kevin Dietsch/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Despite experts urging that quarantine measures may need to continue for months to quell the spread of coronavirus, President Trump has said he wants the United States to…