Michael Ciaglo/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. Yes, a new variant has emerged. On Friday, the WHO designated a fourth, possibly more transmissible “variant of concern”—B.1.1.529 or Omicron—after a steep increase in COVID-19 infections in South Africa. Health officials have detected […] More
Ty O’Neil/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. When pictures started circulating in early November of QAnon supporters crowding Dallas’s Dealy Plaza, where John F. Kennedy was assassinated, in anticipation of the second coming of the slain president and the arrival of […] More
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. On November 17, 2020, the head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Archbishop José Gomez, announced that Joe Biden, who had just been elected president, presented “a difficult and complex […] More
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s speech in October on free thought and dogmatism was incoherent and alarmingly super-nationalistic. Visual China Group/Getty Editor’s note: This essay from David Corn first appeared in his new newsletter, This Land. Given the importance of covering big money in politics and the move toward authoritarianism on the right, we want to make sure as […] More
G-Eazy is sharing a heartbreaking update with fans. The rapper (real name Gerald Earl Gillum) took to Instagram on Wednesday to reveal that his mom Suzanne Olmsted passed away. Alongside a series of throwback photos of his mother — not to mention, a voice memo titled “Opportunity Cost Mom,” on which his momma cries as […] More
Richard Ellis/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. A jury in Brunswick, Georgia, on Wednesday afternoon found all three defendants involved in the 2020 shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery guilty of murder. Gregory McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and their neighbor William […] More
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. This article is a collaboration between Mother Jones and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, which is a nonprofit investigative newsroom. Sign up to get their investigations emailed to you directly. On the evening of Monday, November 2, 2020, the […] More
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Andrew Garfield is opening up about the grief of losing his mother, Lynn, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in late 2019. While making an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote his new film Tick, Tick…Boom!, the actor admitted that he was able to connect to his character Jonathan Larson’s life […] More
Rod Lamkey/CNP via ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. Perhaps the defining characteristic of Kyrsten Sinema’s first nine months in the Senate majority was a persistent, intractable silence. The Arizona Democrat, whose corporate-friendly centrism and dogmatic embrace of bipartisanship […] More
Chiricahua Apache children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1885Library of Congress Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. November is my annual season of ambivalence. Although I love autumn, its poignant air of loss and the promise of renewal, it has […] More
Roger Stone walks to his hotel with Oath Keepers after speaking at Freedom Plaza on January 5, 2021.Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. On Monday, the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US […] More
