Maria Butina Pleads Guilty to Participating in a Russian Conspiracy Against the United States
Maria Butina is pictured in 2012 with Alexander Torshin, then a member of the Russian upper house of parliament.Pavel Ptitsin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian gun rights activist Maria Butina pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy against the United States in federal court Thursday, pledging to cooperate with…
Pennsylvania Replaced Prison Mail With Photocopies. Inmates and Their Families Are Heartbroken.
Mother Jones illustration; Letters courtesy of FAMM, Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since his daughter first learned to use a pen, Joseph Onzik has looked forward to her letters. He reads them from a cell in a state prison in Pennsylvania, where he’s been locked up for about five…
Trump Denies Directing Cohen to “Break the Law”
Wang Ying/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump denied on Thursday having directed his former personal attorney Michael Cohen to “break the law.” The president’s statements come a day after Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison. Trump has come under scrutiny for allegedly directing Cohen to make…
Native Women Are Already Extremely Vulnerable to Domestic Violence. Congress Is About to Make It Worse.
The family of a missing Native woman cries during a traditional blanket dance on a Montana Indian reservation in July. Statistics show that Native women are at greater risk of abuse or to go missing.David Goldman/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Taryn Minthorn was living on an Indian reservation in…
Why Won’t Republicans Cut an Immigration Deal?
K.C. Alfred/San Diego Union-Tribune via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Steve Benen reminds us that about a year ago Democrats offered President Trump a pretty spectacular deal that would have fully funded his border wall: Though this doesn’t come up much anymore, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) met…
“Broad City” Star Ilana Glazer Guest Hosted Our Podcast. She’s Really Good At It!
We’re huge fans of Ilana Glazer, and the hit sitcom, Broad City. So this was a thrill for us: flipping the script and having Glazer take over the Mother Jones Podcast mic.Rich Fury/Invision/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On this week’s episode of the Mother Jones Podcast, host Jamilah King…