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Are Life Sentences a Merciful Alternative to the Death Penalty?
Mar 12, 2021 · Truth-telling independent media is one remaining bulwark against an autocrat’s unrestrained exercise of power.At a time when billionaire owners of corporate media are …
Politics - Mother Jones
Autocratic forces are ascendant in America, but the story isn’t fully written. Truth-telling independent media is one remaining bulwark against the unrestrained exercise of power.
The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would …
On the afternoon of February 1, 2016, as Iowa voters prepared for that evening’s caucuses, Bandy Lee sat by the bedside of her mother, who was terminally ill with cancer. An assistant …
Trump backers are talking up possible civil war - Mother Jones
Jul 26, 2024 · Last week, at J.D. Vance’s first rally as the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, Ohio state Sen. George Lang said that civil war would be necessary if former President Donald …
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the …
The General and the Scoundrel. Dwight D. Eisenhower surrendered to Joe McCarthy on a train. In October 1952, Ike, the heroic World War II general who nabbed the GOP presidential …
US mass shootings, 1982–2024: Data from Mother Jones’ …
Apr 24, 2022 · This database originally covered cases from 1982 to 2012 and has since been updated and expanded numerous times. For analysis and context on this data—including how …
What to know about Donald Trump's new $60 Bible - Mother Jones
Mar 27, 2024 · One month after releasing a line of gilded high-tops for $399, Donald Trump revealed on Tuesday a new item: the Bible. “All Americans need a Bible in their home, and I …
The Iraq invasion 20 years later: It was indeed a Big Lie that …
Mar 20, 2023 · Before there was Donald Trump’s Big Lie, there was George W. Bush’s Big Lie.. Twenty years ago this week, Bush and his sidekick Vice President Dick Cheney launched a …
Elon Musk Keeps Spreading a Very Specific Kind of Racism
Mar 13, 2024 · In 2022, just one week after Musk purchased Twitter, the Center for Countering Digital Hate —an online civil rights group— found that racial slurs against Black people had …