“I Was Ready to Pop a Bottle Open”: What Biden’s Executive Order Means for Trans Military Hopefuls
Chip Somodevilla/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.Paulo Bautista started talking to military recruiters in early 2017, after years of dreaming of enlisting. But his plans were derailed a few months later by two early-morning Trump tweets:…
Biden Reverses Trump’s Transgender Military Ban
Jabin Botsford/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.More than three years after Donald Trump tweeted into existence a ban against transgender service members, his successor has reversed it. On Monday morning, President Biden repealed the…
Long Before the Capitol Riot, Anti-Abortion Extremists Showed Us the Dangers of Inflammatory Propaganda
A counter-protest by Students for Life, an anti-abortion group, in front of the Supreme Court. Stephen Zenner/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 week after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, we’re learning more and more…
At the Height of the Pandemic, the Supreme Court Is Making Abortion Even Harder to Access
Activists protest outside the Supreme Court on March 4, 2020, as it hears oral arguments regarding a Louisiana law about abortion access. Caroline Brehman/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.The Supreme Court issued its first abortion-related…
What’s Next for the #Resistance Now That They Don’t Have Trump to Kick Around Anymore?
Melinda Beck 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.“You’ll see the signs :),” Megan Bartlett had texted me as I looked for her house in Geneva, Illinois, a 20,000-person town about an hour west of Chicago. The…
Delaware’s Sarah McBride Makes History as the Country’s First Openly Transgender State Senator
Transgender activist Sarah McBride campaigns in Claymont, Delaware. Jason Minto/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.When Sarah McBride was 13 years old in 2004, still struggling to accept her gender identity, she built a stage in her Delaware bedroom with a podium. On…