West Virginia Governor Announces a Pay Deal for Striking Teachers
Teachers hold a rally outside the Senate Chambers in the West Virginia Capitol.Tyler Evert/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) announced Tuesday morning that his office had reached a deal to end the nine-day statewide teachers’ strike. We have reached a deal. I stood rock…
Inside Indivisible’s Plan to Take Over Democratic Primaries
Indivisible OC members protest out California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher’s district office.Matt Masin/Orange County Register via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since its inception in late 2016 as a crowd-sourced Google Doc offering tips for how activists can fight back against Trump, Indivisible has grown into a hyper-active, multi-million-dollar operation with…
How a Russian-Linked Shell Company Hired An Ex-Trump Aide to Boost Albania’s Right-Wing Party in DC
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Images; Twitter; Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A former Trump campaign aide working as a lobbyist, a half-million-dollar payment, a conservative Albanian political party, four Republican congressmen, Breitbart News, a kosher restaurateur in New York City, an online dating service that promotes “beautiful” Ukrainian women,…
Trump Barely Acknowledges North Korea News, Then Tells a Joke
Olivier Douliery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump has a theory for why the 90th Academy Awards broadcast on Sunday was one of the lowest-rated in Oscars history. Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY. Problem is, we don’t have Stars anymore – except your President (just kidding, of course)!…
Millions of Americans’ Right to Vote Is at Stake in This Case
Donald Trump meets with Kris Kobach after the 2016 election.Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In October 2014, Charles Stricker III went to the Department of Motor Vehicles in Wichita, Kansas, to get a new driver’s license and register to vote. Stricker, who’d recently moved back to Wichita from…
Why West Virginia’s Teachers Aren’t Backing Down
Hundreds of teachers wait to enter West Virginia’s capitol on Monday.Tyler Evert/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Early on Monday morning, just as schools would usually be opening across West Virginia, the Ohio County Board of Education gathered in a auditorium in Wheeling Park High School to hear comments from…