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Biden Just Ended Trump’s Muslim Ban

President Joe Biden signing an executive order in the Oval Office on Wednesday.Evan Vucci/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.Donald Trump began his presidency with a Muslim ban, and President Joe Biden has begun his by…

Trump’s State Department Had a “Humiliating” Lack of Diversity. Can Joe Biden Fix It?

Mother Jones illustration; Wikimedia CommonsOn Friday October 23, the State Department quietly decided to halt all “training programs related to diversity and inclusion.” For department employees, it was a fitting bookend to a presidential administration that has been hostile to the idea of diversity and uninterested in challenging the stereotype of US diplomats as “pale, male, and…

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 Has Turbocharged the State Department’s War on LGBTQ Rights

Anna Moneymaker/CNP/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Last month, in a video seemingly devoid of irony, former ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell declared that “President Trump is the most pro-gay president in American history.” Believable perhaps if one’s head has been buried in sand…