Jay Jones Hints at Just What Kind of Attorney General He Might Be

It is considered impolite to say, “We told you so.” However, after the debate Thursday between Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and his Democrat challenger, Jay Jones, the temptation to is daunting. Last week, in the wake of the “October Surprise” release of Jones’ text messages from 2022 where he fantasized about shooting then-Republican Speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert and about Gilbert’s two children dying in his wife’s arms, we published a look into the substantial punitive power that a Virginia attorney general has—power that Jones could…

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A New Kind of Family Separation

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts In the Trump administration’s recent round of immigration crackdown, the American public hasn’t seen the same terrible images of migrant children at the border being snatched from their mother’s arms, as they did during his first administration. But that’s because family separation has morphed into something less visible and possibly harder to track. In President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has focused on dismantling a system specifically constructed to protect minors from the harsher aspects of…

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Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’

To support The Atlantic’s journalism, please consider subscribing today. In April 2020, Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old Army private, was bludgeoned to death by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood, in Texas. The killer, aided by his girlfriend, burned Guillén’s body. Guillén’s remains were discovered two months later, buried in a riverbank near the base, after a massive search. Guillén, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, grew up in Houston, and her murder sparked outrage across Texas and beyond. Fort Hood had become known as a particularly perilous assignment for female soldiers,…

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