Tommy Tuberville Perfected His Folksy Trumpism in That Great Lab of Democracy: Local Sports Radio
Mother Jones illustration; Stew Milne/AP; Getty “I don’t need the job and I ain’t going to be politically correct,” said Tommy Tuberville recently at a campaign rally. Intentionally or not, it’s a pretty good summation of Tuberville’s approach to his run for US Senate. Tuberville is best known for his 40 years as a college football…
Should Clergy Be Required to Report Abusers Who Confess?
Chicetin/Getty Kristy Johnson was 6 years old in 1969, when her father, an educator employed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, began sexually abusing her at their home in Utah. Her mother discovered what was happening and sought help from their local Mormon bishop. But according to a civil lawsuit Johnson filed…
Dating While Trans Is Complicated. HBO’s “Euphoria” Pushed Me to Unpack My Online Romances.
Mother Jones; Eddy Chen/HBO Like most girls in her generation, Jules, a character on HBO’s groundbreaking teen drama Euphoria, falls in love through her phone. “Literally just had the most amazing night talking to Tyler,” Jules, a high school junior, texts her best friend and classmate, Rue, referring to the crush she’s been messaging for…
A Quarter of All State Supreme Courts Have Never Had a Justice of Color
Chris Ryan/Getty State courts hear 95 percent of cases filed in the United States, setting sweeping legal precedents that influence generations. “The [courts] touch virtually every aspect of our lives,” says Alicia Bannon, managing director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. But unfortunately, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the people whose hands those…
Why Are Right-Wing Conspiracies so Obsessed With Pedophilia?
Zohar LazarThe children were being sodomized in secret underground tunnels. Their captors drank blood in front of them and staged satanic ritual sacrifices. Sometimes the kids were filmed for pornographic purposes. In total, some several hundred children were subjected to this treatment. And it all happened in the middle of a safe neighborhood where crimes were…
A Republican Politician Says This Woman Can’t Cover His Campaign Unless She’s Accompanied by a Man
Rogelio V. Solis/AP A Republican state representative running to succeed Gov. Phil Bryant as governor of Mississippi told Larrison Campbell, a female political reporter with Mississippi Today, that the only way she could ride along with his campaign would be if she were accompanied by a man. Rep. Robert Foster said that his rivals could…