Oklahoma Is Finally Trying to Cut Prison Time for Abused Moms
Kerry King and her kids during a visit at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center Mother Jones; Photo courtesy of King’s family Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their…
Trump’s Happy Birthday Message for Melania Is a Gift for His Haters
Mother Jones; Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he…
G20 Ministers Get Behind a Global Wealth Tax on Billionaires
Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad, left, with colleagues at a recent G20 news conference.Jose Luis Magana/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2 percent tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise about $313 billion a year for the global fight…
Trump Denies the Affairs at the Heart of the Hush-Money Case. Almost No One Believes Him.
Mother Jones illustration; Glenn Francis/Wikimedia; Elizabeth Williams/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump is on trial in Manhattan facing 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of another crime: conspiring to influence the 2016 election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg argues that,…
Samuel Alito Has a Very Strange Theory for How to Protect Democracy
Mother Jones; Cliff Owen/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, the Supreme Court held oral arguments over former President Donald Trump’s claims that he enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for engaging in what he contends were his official duties while in office.…
The GOP’s “Election Integrity” Lawyer Was Just Indicted for Election Subversion
Christina Bobb, right, interviews fellow election denier Kari Lake at a 2022 rally.Gage Skidmore/Flickr Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The attorney running the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity” effort has been criminally charged by the state of Arizona for her efforts to help Donald…