A Brief, Blood-Boiling History of the Opioid Epidemic
A Maryland cop counts pill capsules suspected to contain heroin.Lexey Swall/Grain Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The scale of the overdose epidemic is hard to fathom. In 2016, overdoses claimed 64,000 lives—more than the US military casualties in Vietnam and Iraq combined. The origins of today’s crisis, a perfect…
House Republicans Just Passed a Huge Tax Cut for the Rich
Bill Clark/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans in the House passed the biggest reform of the tax code in more than 30 years on Tuesday afternoon. The bill was approved on a party-line vote, 227-203 with every Democrat and 12 Republicans voting against the legislation. The bill now heads to the Senate, where…
Most Americans Don’t Believe Trump’s Biggest Lie About the Tax Plan
Dan Anderson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Less than two weeks before the end of the year, President Donald Trump is set to finally score the first major legislative victory of his presidency, with both the House and Senate planning to pass the Republican tax reform bill on Tuesday. But the…
Republican PR Firm Ends Controversial Contract With EPA
Simon Edelman/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Republican PR firm that was awarded a $120,000 EPA contract for media monitoring has pulled out of the deal, days after Mother Jones first revealed the controversial arrangement. The no-bid contract drew widespread scrutiny in recent days, in part because the for-profit firm, called…
Six Things You Might Not Know About the Republican Tax Bill
Gage Skidmore/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Well, the Republican tax bill is set to pass later today. You know the basics: it cuts corporate taxes permanently but cuts individual taxes only temporarily. It’s a pretty good deal for rich people, not so great for the middle…
A New Report Shows Just How Much the Republican Tax Plan Benefits the Richest Americans
Tom/CQ Rollcall/Newscom/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the weekend, President Donald Trump said the final Republican tax plan will offer “one of the great Christmas gifts” for the country’s middle class. But according to a new analysis released Monday, the bill really stuffs the stockings of the richest Americans—now and in…