A Top Trump Official Says Syrian Refugees Don’t Want to Come to the US. In Reality, We’ve Effectively Banned Them.
Syrian refugees in a refugee camp on the Turkey-Syria border in 2015.Emrah Gurel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Only 11 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the United States this year, down from more than 2,400 during the same period in 2017, even though Syria remains convulsed by a civil…
How Sally Kohn’s “The Opposite of Hate” Became a Referendum on White Privilege
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On April 10, progressive political commentator Sally Kohn released her first book The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity. I interviewed Kohn about what she learned from researching the origins and dynamics of hate, and particularly how she maintains…
Starbucks Will Close 8,000 Stores on May 29 for Racial-Bias Training
Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Wow. Starbucks says it will close its 8,000 company-owned stores in the United States for one afternoon to educate employees about racial bias. The announcement follows an uproar over the arrest of two black men who were waiting for a friend at a Philadelphia Starbucks last…
One of Congress’ Most Unpopular Republicans Might Not Even Have a Democratic Opponent in November
Rep. Dana RohrabacherMother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Early last month, at a debate between the Democratic candidates running to unseat Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the 15-term Orange County, California, Republican, local business owner Laura Oatman addressed a longstanding fear among the district’s Democratic voters. “I want to address the elephant…
New Jersey Becomes 13th State to Adopt Automatic Voter Registration
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy exits the polling booth after voting at the Fairview School on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017 in Middletown, N.J. Aristide Economopoulos/NJ Advance Media/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, New Jersey became the 13th state to adopt automatic voter registration—and the third to do so…
American Kids Keep Getting Better and Better at Reading
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. My Twitter feed is glutted with Michael Cohen snark right now, and he is undoubtedly the most entertaining news of both today and the past week. But I don’t have anything nonobvious to say about him, so let’s talk about something else. Last week I…