Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Donald Trump Is Most Definitely a Racist
Courtesy of CBS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper Sunday evening, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 29-year-old Democratic Socialist from New York who, along with all other new members of Congress, was sworn in on January 3, said President Donald Trump is a racist, “no question.” Cooper…
The Worst Anti-Science BS of 2018
Donald Trump has a “natural instinct for science.”Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was a banner year in the war on science, as politicians, media figures, and celebrities used their platforms to promote pseudoscience and interfere with evidence-based policies. Here are five of the most egregious examples. And…
Even Anti-Abortion Gov. Kasich Couldn’t Sign This Extreme Abortion Measure
Protesters march to the Ohio State House in Columbus, Ohio, earlier this month to protest the controversial “fetal heartbeat ban,” which would have prohibited abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.Matthew Hatcher/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Despite efforts of conservative lawmakers and activists, the Ohio…
Vaccine Studies Still Exclude Pregnant Women. That’s a Big Mistake.
Pregnant women stand in line to receive birth kits at a camp for Internally Displaced People in Kibati, Democratic Republic of Congo.Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On August 1, the governor of North Kivu, a province in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo, sent out a frenzied…
Three Women Accused a Tennessee Legislator of Sexual Assault. He Was Still Reelected in a Landslide.
Mother Jones illustration; Mark Humphrey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this year, a mere five months after the #MeToo reckoning first began, a local Tennessee television station dropped what should have been a bombshell investigation: Three women were accusing state Rep. David Byrd of sexually assaulting them when they were minors in the 1980s, using his…
Native Women Are Already Extremely Vulnerable to Domestic Violence. Congress Is About to Make It Worse.
The family of a missing Native woman cries during a traditional blanket dance on a Montana Indian reservation in July. Statistics show that Native women are at greater risk of abuse or to go missing.David Goldman/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Taryn Minthorn was living on an Indian reservation in…