These 6 Jaw-Dropping Charts Show Just How Much Rich People Will Gain From the GOP Tax Bill
DeanDrobot/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, House Republicans approved a sweeping $1.5 trillion tax bill that’s deeply unpopular among Americans. The bill now just needs President Donald Trump’s signature to become a law. Recent analyses by the Tax Policy Center and Joint Committee on Taxation agree: The Republican tax plan…
Republicans Promised to Simplify the Tax Code. They’re Making It Way More Complicated.
President Donald Trump kisses a printed “postcard” tax form at a White House meeting in November with Speaker Paul Ryan, left, and Rep. Kevin Brady, right.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives officially passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut that permanently helps corporations, while providing temporary…
The Generic Ballot Is Predicting a Republican Bloodbath Next Year
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I am generally a skeptic of the “generic ballot” question. This is the one that asks if you plan to vote for a Democrat or a Republican in an upcoming congressional election, and Democrats always seem to hold a big lead. But then that lead…
“Don’t Forget About Me, Okay?”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Julia Lurie didn’t tell her parents that she was looking for drug dealers until afterward. She had been reporting on the opioid epidemic for nearly a year by this point, and she’d just spent a chunk of time in Baltimore and surrounding suburban and rural…
Festival of Slights, the 8th Night: Charlottesville
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Happy Hanukkah! Mother Jones is celebrating this year’s festival of lights with a festival of slights. Specifically, President Donald Trump’s slights toward the Jewish people. When white nationalists marched on Charlottesville in August to protest the proposed removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee,…
When Using Heroin With a Friend Gets You Charged With Murder
iStock/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In early August 2013, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police arrested Jarret McCasland, then 24, ostensibly for a minor traffic violation. But at the station, they began questioning him about the death of his girlfriend, Flavia Cardenas. “Why are you treating me like this?” he…