Columbia Just Triggered a Massive Campus Crackdown. Now the NYPD Will Stay for Weeks.
A phalanx of NYPD cops descended on Columbia University on Tuesday night and began clearing Hamilton Hall, the administration building that student protesters began occupying in the morning.Julius Motal/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Police cleared and arrested protesters occupying Hamilton Hall at Columbia…
Report: The DEA Is Finally Reclassifying Pot as Less Dangerous
Mother Jones illustration; Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing that cannabis be reclassified from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a classification that comes with steep penalties, to the…
How a Few Secret Donors Are Fueling the New Right-Wing Infrastructure
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In early 2021, Stephen Miller—former White House senior adviser to Donald Trump and architect of the 45th president’s hopeful second-term mass deportation agenda—announced his next venture: America First Legal (AFL). Paraded as “the long-awaited answer to the ACLU,” AFL fights…
Trump Says States Could Prosecute Women for Abortions Under His Watch
Robin Rayne/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Eight years ago, in his 2016 run for president, Donald Trump said that women who have abortions should be criminally charged. “There has to be some form of punishment,” Trump said at the time. The comment caused…
Students at Columbia Occupy Building—Echoing Protests of the Past
Left: A photo of Students for a Democratic Society’s (SDS) takeover of Hamilton Hall in 1968. Right: A photo of “autonomous” protesters associated with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment who took over Hamilton Hall early in the morning of April 30, 2024.Bev Grant/Getty; Alex Kent/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter…
Judge Fines Trump $9,000 and Threatens to Throw Him in Jail
Donald Trump at Manhattan criminal courtJustin Lane/Pool Photo/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial fined the former president $9,000 on Tuesday for violating a gag order—and he warned Trump that any further violations might result in…