While America Sleeps: Trump’s Treachery and the Russia Scandal
Donald Trump meets with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Listen to David discuss the president’s cover-up of the Russia scandal on the Mother Jones Podcast. In 1938, Winston Churchill published a collection of his speeches warning that his homeland was not…
Trump Opens NATO Summit by Accusing Germany of Being “Totally Controlled by Russia”
Bernd Von Jutrczenka/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. German Chancellor Angela Merkel hit back at President Donald Trump after he accused Germany of being “totally controlled by Russia”‘ and urged allies to look into the issue during a rant at the outset of this week’s NATO summit in Brussels. “I’ve…
Inside the Radical, Uncomfortable Movement to Reform White Supremacists
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On July 4, 2013, one of Shane Johnson’s pals pushed through the front door of his trailer and announced that “a bunch of black guys” had just “said some shit to him.” Johnson was small and lithe, tattooed from neck to toe with swastikas, and…
Nevada Is About to Kill an Inmate Using a Drug Mix That’s Never Been Tried Before
Hailshadow/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, 10:45 a.m.: Alvogen, the company from which Nevada obtained midazolam, filed a lawsuit against the state Tuesday afternoon*. The company is alleging that despite a clear warning that its product could not be used in executions, Nevada purchased the drugs by “subterfuge.” The…
A Former Klansman Talks About How He Left a Life of Hate
Alyssa Schukar Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shane Johnson was born into the Ku Klux Klan—now he works to convince others not to join hate groups. How did he get out? And what can we learn from his story? On the Mother Jones Podcast, senior editor Wes Enzinna shares insights from his…
You Can’t Understand White Supremacists Without Looking at Masculinity
Mother Jones illustration; Vintervarg/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly all right-wing extremists have something in common: They’re men. Without addressing this fact, it is impossible to make sense of hate groups or try to eradicate them, argues Michael Kimmel, a sociologist at Stony Brook University who has written several…