Obama Praises Young Activists Demanding Gun Control After Florida
Phil Velasquez/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A day after thousands of students across the country participated in walk-outs to protest gun violence, former President Barack Obama on Thursday offered his support to the “fearless students” demanding lawmakers take action in response to the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida.…
Teenagers Pour Into the Streets Calling for Gun Control After Parkland Shooting
Students call for gun control outside the White House on Wednesday. Kara Voght/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Busloads of teenagers arrived in Tallahassee overnight to continue their calls for gun control hundreds of miles from the site of a mass shooting that left 17 dead and 14 others injured at a…
Sorry, But Here’s Yet Another Nutball Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just in case you don’t know, the latest right-wing nutball conspiracy theory is that David Hogg, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is not what he seems: In certain right-wing corners of the web — and, increasingly, from more mainstream voices like Rush…
The 2018 Election Started Tuesday With One Jaw-Dropping Stat
Fernando Cortes/Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The 2018 election officially began on Tuesday with the first day of early voting ahead of Texas’ March 6th primaries. Evidently, a lot of people got the message. In Harris County, which includes Houston and is the state’s largest population center, Republican turnout…
An Old Man Reflects on the Era of Fire Drills, Not Lockdown Drills
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As an old man tottering into the sunset of his life, I would like to verify from my own experience that, yes, there was a time when kids went to high school without giving a moment’s thought to being gunned down by a mass murderer.…
Republicans Are Having Second Thoughts About Abandoning TPP
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday I read that a couple of Republican senators thought Donald Trump should rethink his decision to pull out of the Trans Pacific Partnership, a trade treaty with 11 other nations. But the Washington Post reports today that support for TPP has expanded: The latest:…