Four Million Young People Were Homeless Last Year. Four Million.
In Hollywood, 75% of the homeless population were under the age of 21 in 2014. Joshua Thaisen/ZUMA Nearly 4.2 million kids and young adults without a parent or guardian are homeless across the United States over the course of a year. A new study from the University of Chicago revealed the startling statistic this week, focused specifically on homeless unaccompanied youth between ages…
The Latest Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party Is This Sunday in a Pennsylvania High School Gym
Illustration by Mother Jones On October 21, Republican Congressman Tim Murphy formally resigned from Congress. The seven-term representative from Pennsylvania had always enjoyed strong ratings from pro-life organizations, but when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette revealed that he had been carrying on an affair and had suggested his mistress seek an abortion, his 14 years in Washington were over. To…
Kushner May Have Withheld Even More Key Information From Congress
Jared Kushner leaves after testifying at a closed-door hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on July 24. Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Jared Kushner may have a new problem regarding his testimony in the Trump-Russia scandal. Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, told Capitol Hill investigators that he did not know of any…
Sanders Has a Very Strange Rationale for Why Trump’s Sexual Assault Claims Don’t Matter
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday offered a peculiar defense of President Donald Trump’s decision to attack Sen. Al Franken on Twitter over a new sexual misconduct revelation, but remained silent about serious sexual assault allegations against Roy Moore, the US Senate candidate in Alabama. “Senator Franken has admitted wrongdoing and the president…
Republicans Suddenly Discover That Private Jets Don’t Deserve a Tax Break
Katerina Sulova/CTK/ZUMA A couple of days ago I saw a tweet about a provision of the Republican tax bill that gave owners of private airplanes a tax break. That seemed well worth a snarky blog post, but then I foolishly checked up on what the provision actually did. It…wasn’t really that bad. So I never…
Thanks to the FCC, Christmas Comes Early for Pro-Trump Sinclair Broadcast Group
Ron Sachs/CNP/ZUMA Wire Christmas came early for Sinclair Broadcast Group, the pro-Trump local television goliath. On Thursday, the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission voted on a series of actions that would eliminate regulations for local media ownership while approving a new TV broadcast standard developed by Sinclair. Both decisions will likely result in a major windfall for the…