The Craziest Conspiracy Theories to Emerge From the Kavanaugh Hearings
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In one of the most contentious Supreme Court confirmation processes in recent history, mounting scrutiny of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s personal history has been met with a backlash: a growing body of conspiracy theories meant to discredit his accusers. We rounded up some…
Did Brett Kavanaugh Lie About Deborah Ramirez?
Saul Loeb/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is from the afternoon session of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings last week: ORRIN HATCH: When did you first hear of [Deborah] Ramirez’s allegations against you? KAVANAUGH: In the last — in the period since then, the New Yorker story. Ramirez is…
A Year After the Las Vegas Shooting, Gun Control Advocates Are Getting Out the Vote in Nevada
A woman carries a “Vegas Strong” poster at the March For Our Lives event in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 24, 2018.Damairs Carter/MediaPunch/IPX Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Nevada, politics paused October 1. The one-year anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in US history began with a sunrise vigil…
Puerto Rico’s Governor Just Came Out in Support of Florida Democrats
Andrew Gillum speaks to supporters after he was endorsed by Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló during a campaign rally Monday. John Raoux/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló endorsed Florida’s Democratic candidates for governor and senator Monday, following months of intense campaigning by politicians hoping to…
What an Explosive Story About Devin Nunes’ Family Farm Means for His High-Profile House Race
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)Bill Clark/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday, Esquire dropped a story exposing a “politically explosive secret” about Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)—one that he and his family have been harboring for more than decade. Nunes’ oft-repeated origin story is that he’s a local boy with a…
Things Are Going Great for Almost Every Democratic Senate Candidate—With One Big Exception.
Scott Anderson/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Heading into the 2018 midterm elections, Democrats faced long odds of taking back the Senate. With 10 incumbents up for reelection in states carried by President Donald Trump—five representing places he carried by double digits—the party needed just about everything to go…