Trump Asked to Appeal His Defamation Verdict, Then Spent 40 Minutes Insulting His Victims
AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. I’m no legal expert, but I’ve got a sneaky suspicion that if you’ve just asked a judge to reconsider the verdict in your defamation case, you probably shouldn’t repeat similarly defamatory statements during a press…
“He’s an Agent. No One Will Believe Me Over Him.”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. For our September+October issue, we investigated the Border Patrol’s sharp growth, its troubling record on civil liberties, its culture of impunity, and its role in shaping the current political moment—one that echoes the anti-immigrant fever that led to the agency’s creation a century…
These Clergy Abuse Survivors Had a Chance to Find Justice. Then Their Diocese Filed for Bankruptcy.
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When Teresa Lancaster was a teenager in the 1970s, she was raped by a chaplain at her Catholic high school in Baltimore. But when she and another survivor, Jean Wehner, sued the chaplain and the diocese…
She Has Investigated Allegations of Sexual Violence in War Around the World. Here’s What She Wants You to Know.
Mother Jones; Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Despite being “the cheapest weapon known to man,” sexual violence in war is “almost always ignored in the history books,” writes journalist Christina Lamb in her 2020 book, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the…
In “Quiet on Set,” Justice Isn’t So Simple
Dan Schneider accepts the lifetime achievement award at the 2014 Kids’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles.Matt Sayles/Invision/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As a kid, I spent countless hours watching The Amanda Show, a sketch comedy series starring Amanda Bynes that aired on Nickelodeon…
We Exposed the Mormon Church’s Protection of an Ex-Bishop Accused of Sexual Abuse. He Was Just Arrested.
Rick Bowmer/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 1999, John Goodrich, an Idaho dentist who was also a bishop with the Mormon church, accompanied his teenage daughter Chelsea on a school field trip to the East Coast. During a stay in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia,…