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Trump Judges Are Already Helping Him Escape Accountability and Return to Power
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. One reason Donald Trump’s trial this month is so notable is that it is actually happening. As recently as last summer, it appeared that Trump would face four criminal trials ahead of the 2024 elections: two in state court and two in federal court. Today, it looks like the New York state hush money case will be the only one to reach a jury before November, and possibly ever. There is plenty of blame to go around for the delays. But one person who deserves a lot of that blame—or credit—is Trump himself.
Shot by a Civilian Wielding a Police Gun
This story was produced in partnership with The Trace and CBS News and Stations. Candace Leslie was leaving church when she got the call she will never forget. “All I heard was his girlfriend yelling in the phone, and she was like, ‘Cameron! Cameron! … He won’t get up. He won’t get up!’ ”
Under Glenn Youngkin, Parole in Virginia Has Nearly Vanished
This article was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Mother Jones. In early April, Sarah Moore got the news she was dreading: Her husband, Dennis Jackson Moore, had been denied parole again. It was his fourth rejection in as many years. Dennis, who goes by Vega, is 45. He...
Our Fixation on Forests as a Climate Solution Is Causing Problems
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. What is the value of a tree? It can provide a cool place to rest in the shade, a snack in the form of fruit, lumber to build a home, and cleaner air. But trees are increasingly being prized for one thing: their ability to capture carbon and counteract climate change.
Add Rubio to the List of GOP Invertebrates Who Won’t Say if They’d Certify 2024 Election Results
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. By now, it looks like appearing on national television and refusing to commit to certifying the 2024 general election results is a requirement for Trump vice-presidential hopefuls. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Sen. J.D....
Biden Celebrates Black Leadership While Navigating Gaza Crisis Tensions at HBCU Commencement
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. For weeks preceding President Biden’s commencement speech on Sunday at Morehouse College—a historically Black men’s college in Atlanta—students and faculty opposed his appearance, alleging that the president should not be the guest of honor given his ongoing support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
One of the World’s Healthiest Coral Reefs Is Hiding in a Gulf Coast Oilfield
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. While the Gulf of Mexico is a region known for oil, it’s also home to something far less expected. Nestled among offshore oil platforms, about 150 miles from Houston, is one of the healthiest coral reefs in the world: the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.
A Mass Shooter’s Mother Explains How She’s Trying to Stop the Next Tragedy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. “I just want to share what I have discovered about my son’s circumstances that led him to this horrific, indescribable crime. I hope that my hindsight will be your foresight.”. I’ve been...
“No Mow May” Won’t Fix Our Biodiversity Problems
This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2020, the Wisconsin city of Appleton brought No Mow May to the United States. Each spring, by temporarily forgoing mowing and letting residential lawns grow with flowers, residents could support bees and other insect pollinators, proponents claimed. Indeed, they even said the practice was backed by their own published scientific study.
Dobbs Had the Opposite Effect Conservatives Intended
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Something curious has happened since the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision in June 2022:. people have obtained abortions, despite increasing barriers to access. That’s one of the central findings of a...
Greg Abbott Declares Open Season on Protesters in Texas
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Thursday, purportedly on the advice of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott formally pardoned Daniel Perry for his 2020 murder of Garrett Foster at a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin. I say “purportedly” because Abbott never waited for the board before passing judgment in the case; he announced a little over a year ago that he was “working as swiftly as the law allows” to get Perry out of prison.
The “Good Deal” Trump Allegedly Offered Oil Execs Might Be Worth $110 Billion
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A “deal” allegedly offered by Donald Trump to Big Oil executives as he sought $1 billion in campaign donations could save the industry $110 billion in tax breaks if he returns to the White House, an analysis suggests.
North Carolina’s Protest Crackdown Now Includes a Ban on N95s
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. North Carolina Republicans are pushing legislation that would remove the state’s health exemption to laws banning masks in public, citing protestors’ wearing them in pro-Palestine campus rallies. If the state GOP’s “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals” bill passes, North Carolina would become the first in the country since 2020 to make it illegal to avoid infectious diseases like Covid-19—which people can also get while protesting—by masking in public. The bill passed the state Senate on Wednesday in a 30-15 party-line vote. Due to Senate revisions, it will have to pass the Republican-majority state House again. But even if Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoes the law, the Republican-majority state legislature will have the power to override him.
A Columbia University Protester Says the NYPD Made Her Remove Her Hijab—Despite New Policy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A Columbia protester detained as part of the city’s crackdown against the Gaza Solidarity Encampment says that during her arrest and processing she was forced to take off her hijab—a violation of a New York Police Department policy and another instance of a high-profile problem for the department.
The Supreme Court Delivers a Rare Win for Black Voters in the South
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court allowed a lower court decision requiring a second majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana to move forward for the 2024 elections, handing down a rare victory for minority representation that also boosts Democrats chances of retaking the House of Representatives.
Why I Spent Two Years Investigating a Notorious Mass Shooting
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Ten years ago, a 22-year-old murdered six college students in a suicidal rampage near Santa Barbara, California. Those students were Weihan Wang, Cheng Hong, George Chen, Katherine Cooper, Veronika Weiss, and Christopher Martinez. Many others were injured and traumatized in the attack.
Carvell Wallace on Life and Love and Coming of Age in a Cruel World
Editor’s note: It is hard to briefly summarize the poignancy, vulnerability, and harrowing beauty of Another Word for Love, an exceptional new memoir from the journalist and podcaster Carvell Wallace, who infuses vignettes of his hardscrabble journey from boyhood to middle age with philosophical ruminations on culture; family, love, sex, inner torment, and just about everything else worth pondering.
These Tribes Are Building Crossings to Save Wildlife From Becoming Roadkill
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The North Cascades elk herd is a cluster of some 1,600 animals whose domain, like so many habitats, is riven by a highway. From 2012 to 2019, Washington state records show, at least 229 elk were killed by cars along a stretch of State Route 20 in the Skagit Valley. The situation imperils humans, too: In 2023, a motorist died after swerving around an elk into a telephone pole.
America’s Billionaires Are Really Going to Hate This New Senate Bill
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Almost as predictably as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, the rich grow richer. “Wealth concentration in a few hands is the single most enduring economic pattern across all polities from Mesopotamia to the present—rarely interrupted, and then only for brief intervals,” the political scientist Jeffrey Winters, who studies oligarchies (including the United States) at Northwestern University, wrote in a 2017 paper.
Yet Another Republican Comes Out Against No-Fault Divorce
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Erstwhile GOP presidential candidate and current vice-presidential hopeful Ben Carson has joined right-wing peers like Speaker of the House Mike Johnson in supporting the end—or at least the rolling back—of no-fault divorce laws across the nation.
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