The Trump Coup: Maybe We Can’t Handle the Truth
A pro-Trump demonstrator carries a sign near the US Capitol on the one-year anniversary of the January 6 attack.John Lamparski/AP Editor’s note: This essay by David Corn first appeared in his newsletter, This Land. But we wanted to make sure as many readers as possible have a chance to see it. This Land is written by David twice a week…
Trump Sent Asylum Seekers Back Into “the Depths of Hell”
Gendarmes patrol Omar Bongo Square in southwestern Cameroon.Marco Longari/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In August 2019, I wrote an article for the now-defunct Pacific Standard magazine about Martin, an asylum seeker from Cameroon who was denied protection by the United States…
Sick Kansas Republican, Absent for Entire Legislative Session, Shows Up to Enact Gerrymandered Map
Kansas state Reps. Michael Houser, left, of Columbus, and Richard Proehl on April 2, 2014.John Hanna/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.An anti-vaccine Kansas Republican, sick with an undisclosed illness, was so dedicated to overriding a Democratic governor’s veto of a gerrymandered…
The Offensive, Bizarre, and Offensively Bizarre Questions Republicans Have Asked Ketanji Brown Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to be US Circuit judge for the DC Circuit.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Supreme Court confirmation hearings are often more a forum for primetime senatorial grandstanding and…
Here Are the Things Ron DeSantis Thinks Are “Woke”
Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Big Tech? Woke. Infrastructure spending? Woke. Academia? Definitely woke. The word that was once a rallying cry for Black Americans to stay alert to racial injustices has been co-opted by the conservative right to denounce…
Why It’s So Hard to Get a Defense Lawyer Confirmed to the Supreme Court
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The last time the Supreme Court had a justice who’d worked as a criminal defense lawyer was 1991. That’s the year Thurgood Marshall, the legendary civil rights advocate, retired after 24 years on the…