Ignorance is Strength: The Trump Administration’s Creepy War on Language
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared at TomDispatch.com. Consider us officially in an Orwellian world, though we only half realize it. While we were barely looking, significant parts of an American language long familiar to us quite literally, and in a remarkably coherent way, went…
Russia’s Campaign to Help Trump Win Was Just the Start
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former FBI special agent Clint Watts was tracking Islamic State terrorists and their propaganda on Twitter in 2014 when he first encountered a different kind of troll. These accounts weren’t trying to recruit fighters for jihad. They were promoting an…
Black Oaklanders Rally Around Racially Charged BBQ Incident That Became a Viral Video
A screenshot of the viral video of the now infamous April 29 incident in which a white woman called the police on two black men barbecuing on a lake in Oakland, California.Michelle Dione/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Dozens of black Oaklanders showed up at a city council meeting last…
Manhattan District Attorney Will No Longer Prosecute Minor Marijuana Cases
A man smokes marijuana at the Cannabis Parade and Rally in Manhattan on May 6, 2018.Luiz Rampelotto/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The district attorney’s office in Manhattan, New York City’s largest borough, will no longer file charges against defendants in most marijuana possession and smoking cases, the office announced…
Mueller Wants to Know Why Ford Turned Down Michael Cohen’s Consulting Services
Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shortly after Donald Trump became president, his personal attorney Michael Cohen gave Ford Motor Co. a call to offer his consulting services, “touting his proximity to the president,” the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Unlike AT&T, Novartis, and Columbus Nova, an investment firm…
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Just Dealt an Unexpected Blow to the NRA
President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas, on May 4.Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Late Friday night, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin vetoed a bill that would have let adults carry guns without training or a permit, striking a blow to the National Rifle…