Understaffed Federal Prison Is Taking in 1,000 Noncriminal Immigrants, and Even the Guards Are Protesting
Homeland Security buses enter the federal correctional complex in Victorville, California.James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, as the first busloads of immigrants rolled up to the federal prison complex in Victorville, California, the facilities there went on lockdown. The Victorville complex, in an…
Suicide Rates Are Up in Almost Every State, and Donald Trump’s Policies Are Not Going to Help
Mother Jones; Cheriss May/NurPhoto/ZUMA; CDC Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A week after the back-to-back suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain renewed the national conversation over mental health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released numbers showing that America’s overall suicide rate has climbed by a whopping 30…
For Black Lives Activists, Engaging in Trump’s Pardon Politics Feels Like a Deal With the Devil
Trump granted clemency to Alice Marie Johnson (left, with daughter) after hearing a personal plea from Kim Kardashian West. Adrian Sainz Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last Wednesday, Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother who served more than 20 years of a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense,…
This South Carolina Primary Will Test Whether Democrats Are Willing to Overlook Domestic Violence
Mother Jones illustration; Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the past year, Archie Parnell, a former Goldman Sachs managing director and former tax attorney for ExxonMobil, has been among the candidates the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee viewed as contenders to fulfill their dreams of a Blue Wave in the 2018…
Driving While Black Has Gotten Even Worse
A protest in April after the controversial arrest of two black men at a Starbucks in Philadelphia.Bastiaan Slabbers / ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There is a stark new statistic out from the office of Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley: In 2017, black drivers in the state were 85…
Trump Blames FBI for Not Warning Him About Paul Manafort
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump has been known to boast about only hiring the best people, but in hindsight says he could’ve used some help. On Sunday, Trump complained that the FBI didn’t inform him that his own campaign chairman was…