A healthcare worker prepares an infusion for a patient at a drive-thru monoclonal antibody treatment in the parking lot of Wayne Health Detroit Mack Health Center in Detroit, Michigan, Dec. 23, 2021.Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. At this point in […] More
Tom Williams/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. On Saturday morning, Arizona Democratic Party leaders officially rebuked Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) for siding with Republicans to vote against changing Senate rules to pass voting rights legislation this week. The party’s executive board […] More
Mitch McConnell called the criticism of his comments “offensive and outrageous.” Tom Williams/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. It has been an ugly week for Mitch McConnell. Addressing reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday, the Senate Minority Leader made an offensive […] More
During Wheeler’s tenure, the EPA scrubbed climate change language from the agency’s website. And Wheeler questioned the results of a sobering federal climate assessment, saying some of its findings were “based on the worst-case scenario.” Owens Powell was surprised that Youngkin tapped Wheeler for the job given what she felt was a clear and well-documented record at […] More
Getty Images/Michael S. Schwartz, AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Getty Images/Don Emmert Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. Last week, Gettr, the social media site that sells itself as a MAGA alternative to Twitter, entered damage control mode. The hugely popular podcaster Joe Rogan, […] More
Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. Once the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2022 Winter Olympics to Beijing more than six years ago, Mandie McKeown and her colleagues at the nonprofit International Tibet Network got right to work. McKeown […] More
Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. After two days of debate on the Senate floor, the Democrats’ Hail Mary push for voting rights came up short, as Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin joined with the GOP to block a rules […] More
Fani Willis, the Fulton County DA investigating Trump’s Georgia election meddlingAlyssa Pointer/TNS/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. In early January 2021, then-President Donald Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and demanded that he “find 11,780 votes” to sway the […] More
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. Doctors have known for more than a year now that the antiparasitic drug ivermectin isn’t effective against Covid. The FDA has explicitly warned against prescribing it to Covid patients, but many physicians still do—and public and private insurance […] More
Stefani Reynolds/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. In a letter sent Thursday, the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol requested the voluntary cooperation of Ivanka Trump, a notable escalation in the panel’s attempts to interview […] More
Senate TV/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. For the fifth time during the last year, Senate Republicans blocked Democrats on Wednesday from passing sweeping legislation that would roll back GOP efforts to make it harder to vote. Their justification: there is […] More
Migrants sit against a fence while waiting to board a Border Patrol bus after crossing the Rio Grande in November 2021. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. The Biden administration argued in court Wednesday in defense of Title 42, […] More
