Watch a Fake Rabbi Wrap Trump’s Spiritual Adviser In a Torah Scroll
Televangelist and personal pastor to the president, Paula White Cain, speaks during a Donald Trump campaign event courting devout conservatives by combining praise, prayer and patriotism, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Alpharetta, Ga. John Amis/AP Photo For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In honor…
Mike Pompeo Brought His Backward View of Human Rights to the UN. Europe Wasn’t Buying It.
Andrew Harnik/AFP/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged foreign leaders to “secure unalienable rights” in a United Nations speech on Wednesday, which laid the “crisis” in international human rights at the feet of longtime American adversaries and multilateral…
Mike Pompeo Plans to Push His Anti-LGBTQ Commission at the UN
Alex Halada/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Two months after a controversial State Department commission elevated religious freedom at the expense of LGBTQ equality and reproductive rights, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is planning to promote its findings at the United Nations, Mother…
Is Anyone Else Having End Times Anxiety? Because, Hoo Boy!
Burnt out wreckage is seen along Pleasants Creek Road where the LNU Lightning complex fire tore through late last week, photographed on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 in Vacaville, CA Kent Nishimura/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.I cannot sleep; at night, my mind cycles through an Arya…
A New State Department Report Cements Mike Pompeo’s Twisted View of Human Rights
Jim Loscalzo/CNP/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last July, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched an advisory panel to help the US practice “a moral foreign policy … grounded in [a] conception of human rights.” Crucially, its mission, Pompeo explained, would include reining in a dangerous proliferation of “new”…
Meet the Nuns Who Created Their Own Climate Solutions Fund
The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation in Nashville, Tenn.John Russell/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. It’s been five years since Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si,” the celebrated 225-page encyclical in which the…