Adrien Fillon/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. As more details continue to come out about the Justice Department’s investigation into whether Donald Trump may have violated the Espionage Act and other laws, the former president’s defenses have only grown more chaotic. Trump debuted […] More
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Inflation Reduction Act—the blockbuster tax and climate reform bill passed by the Senate earlier this week—includes several provisions aimed at forcing corporations to pay a fairer share of their taxes. These include a […] More
Author Salman Rushdie speaks as he presents his book ”Quichotte” at the Volkstheater in Vienna, Austria, on November 16, 2019. Herbert Neubauer/APA Picturedesk via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Celebrated author Salman Rushdie was attacked Friday morning as he prepared to give […] More
An activist in Tulsa, Oklahoma, protests against the Supreme Court decision in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta.Manuela Soldi/Tulsa World/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Since the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade in June, millions of people have faced new barriers to abortion access: […] More
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It was inevitable, after the Senate’s recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), that the IRS would come under renewed attack. Republicans loathe taxes and the IRS is an easy target. Nobody likes […] More
Greg Nash/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Department of Justice has filed a motion to unseal the search warrant executed by the FBI earlier this week at former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Thursday. In a […] More
German federal police officers guide a group of migrants between Austria and Germany.Kerstin Joensson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited the immigration of workers from China for ten years, became law in the United States. It was […] More
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In 2010, a group of anti-choice activists sent several complaints to Iowa’s medical board, demanding the agency end a popular telemedicine abortion program. Run by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, the program helped patients in […] More
Even against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s historically bad weeks—which over the years have earned labels ranging from trainwrecks driven off cliffs to “terrible, horrible, no good, very bad”—this week manages to outdo itself. On Monday, the FBI searched Trump’s Palm Beach residence, Mar-a-Lago. Then, Trump’s longstanding efforts to shield his tax returns looked shaky after the DC […] More
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Back in November 2021, cryptocurrencies, which saw a huge surge during most of the pandemic, suddenly began to nosedive. Joe Hovde, a New York-based data scientist decided that this might be his moment to […] More
Mother Jones illustration; Michael Brochstein/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Monday, the New Yorker reported that Donald Trump once asked his chief of staff, retired Marine Corps General John Kelly, “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?” “Which […] More
in addition to expanding renewable energy.,the IRA incentivizes fossil fuel development.Eli Hartman/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The landmark climate legislation passed by the Senate after months of wrangling and weakening by fossil-fuel friendly Democrats will lead to more harm than good, according to frontline […] More
