This Kafkaesque Nightmare Shows Just How Absurd the Travel Ban Is
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Editor’s Note: On the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, Mother Jones asked readers to share their stories about how the ban has affected them. We’re following up with readers and publishing their stories. You can share your own story at the bottom of this…
Democrats’ Strategy in the Latest Gerrymandering Case: Win by Losing
Maryland Democrats gerrymandered the state’s political map in 2011 to give their party an extra congressional seat.National Atlas of the United States/Wikimedia Commons Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrats have recently brought legal challenges to gerrymanders that have locked them out of power in states from Pennsylvania to North Carolina,…
Supreme Court Justices Warn Anti-Abortion Groups That Their Argument Could Come Back to Hurt Them
Protests as the Supreme Court hears arguments on Tuesday, March 20, 2018.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With anti-abortion and pro-choice demonstrators rallying outside, the Supreme Court heard National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra on Tuesday morning, the blockbuster case that could shift the law of the…
Supreme Court Reverses Decision That Gives Immigrants a Right to Regular Bond Hearings
JPecha/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision holding that some detained immigrants have the right to regular bond hearings. The ruling sends the case back to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The 5-3 decision in Jennings v. Rodriguez was written by Justice…
11 Historical Moments That Gave Us President Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by TomDispatch. The present arrives out of a past that we are too quick to forget, misremember, or enshroud in myth. Yet like it or not, the present is the product of past choices. Different decisions back then might have yielded…
Republicans Are Trying to Kill a Key Voting Rights Law
Student Anne Harris register to vote Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, at Lake Michigan College, in Benton Harbor, Mich. Herald-Palladium via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thirty years ago, the United States had a big problem. Barely half of eligible voters had cast a ballot in the 1988 presidential election—the…