California is One Step Closer to Requiring Colleges to Offer Medication Abortions
Pile of white pills on blue backgroundGetty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A bill that would require California’s public universities to provide students with medication-based abortions is one step away from becoming law after passing the state Assembly today. It will head back to the Senate for a final concurrence…
Republican Super PAC Tries to Tie Dem Candidate to “Terror High”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Well, now, here’s an odd story. A Super PAC associated with Paul Ryan seems to have gotten hold of the entire federal security clearance application for a Democratic candidate challenging Dave Brat’s seat in Virginia. This is a sensitive and highly classified document, of course,…
Don McGahn Is Leaving the White House
Tom Williams/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. White House counsel Don McGahn will leave his position following the likely confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh this fall. President Donald Trump announced the news in a tweet Wednesday morning, shortly after Axios first reported that McGahn was planning to leave and…
You Can Do Everything Right and Still Get Screwed: Student Debt Forgiveness Gone Horribly Wrong.
Sezeryadigar/Herianus/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On this week’s episode of the Mother Jones Podcast, the rage-inducing inside story of America’s student debt machine: how the nation’s flagship loan forgiveness program is failing the very people it’s meant to help. You’ll hear disturbing firsthand accounts of how the mismanaged Public Service Loan…
Last Night, Arizona Primary Voters Backed Two Competing Visions for the Democratic Party
Kyrsten Sinema and David Garcia, Arizona Democrats’ 2018 nominees for senator and governor.Ross D. Franklin/AP; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Michelle Capriotti has been waiting for a political moment like this. One evening in early August, a few weeks before students returned to the nearby high…
Brett Kavanaugh Sure Does Love Giant Corporations
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Stephanie Mencimer reports that Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, has a well-developed judicial philosophy: In both his rulings and public speeches, he has criticized a Supreme Court precedent that instructs judges to defer to federal agencies when interpreting environmental or consumer…