Did You Talk Politics at Thanksgiving? We Want to Hear About It.
Mother Jones illustration The season of gathering and feasting is upon us. If that means you’ll be eating with family this year, you might be hyper aware that sharing DNA doesn’t necessarily mean sharing the same opinions about things—like politics. With so much happening in the news these days, you may be dreading the more prickly…
Behold the Latest In Management Consultant BS for the State Department
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been busily decimating the State Department despite the fact that both Democrats and Republicans want the department staffed at roughly the same level as last year. But will Congress ever do anything about this? Apparently they’re getting close, and Politico’s Nahal Toosi reports that even Sen. Bob Corker is…
Liberalism Demands That We Treat People Fairly, Even When It’s Hard
After going back and forth a bit about Al Franken’s sexual misconduct—he was a comedian at the time and his victim has accepted his apology, but then again, forgiving him could derail the movement to hold sexual predators accountable—Michelle Goldberg concludes that Franken should resign: It’s not worth it. The question isn’t about what’s fair…
Did President Trump Approve a Deal That Allowed Hundreds of ISIS Fighters to Escape Raqqa?
Morukc Umnaber/DPA via ZUMA President Trump has insisted for a long time that his attitude toward ISIS will be nothing like President Obama’s. There will be no compromise, no pragmatism, no half measures. He will destroy them to the last man and completely annihilate their organization. That makes it odd that this deeply-reported BBC story…
Will Washington State Pass the Nation’s First Carbon Tax?
Downtown Seattle, with Mt. Rainier.kanonsky/iStock/Getty Last November, some environmentalists in Washington state went to the polls hoping voters would back an initiative creating the nation’s first tax on carbon pollution. Initiative 732 went down to defeat as the country’s attention focused on Donald Trump’s shocking electoral college win. But now, one year later and buoyed…
Inmates Are Using Masturbation as a Weapon. Female Guards Have Had Enough.
Mother Jones illustration.fatihhoca/Getty A pair of class-action lawsuits filed last week against the sheriff’s office in Cook County, Illinois, allege that the office has failed to protect female workers and female public defenders against frequent and egregious sexual harassment—by male inmates at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. Inaction by Sheriff Thomas Dart has left…