America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This article was adapted from Nuclear War: A Scenario, published March 26, 2024, by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright 2024 by Annie M. Jacobsen. Nuclear war is madness. Were…
Ken Paxton Is Going to Take Some Classes on How to Be More Ethical
Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, nine years after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted for securities fraud, and just a few weeks before he was finally set to go on trial, prosecutors struck a deal…
Justice Samuel Alito Falsely Implies Mifepristone Could Cause “Very Serious Harm”
Mother Jones illustration; Eric Lee/CNP/ZUMA; Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Justice Samuel Alito implied that mifepristone—one of the two drugs used in medication abortion, which the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to restrict in what has been billed as “the…
Supreme Court Appears Unlikely to Roll Back Access to Medication Abortion
Abortion rights activists rally outside the court on March 26.Drew Angerer/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard its most consequential abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago. This time, the question facing the justices…
Repro-Rights Advocates Focused on Abortion and Not Pregnancy. That Was a Mistake.
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As the Supreme Court prepares for arguments in a wide-ranging case over the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, it’s hard to fathom what might happen if the abortion pill, which now accounts for 63 percent of abortions…
New York Appeals Court Gives Donald Trump a $300 Million Break
Former President Donald Trump leaves a pretrial hearing during a recess with his defense team on March 25.Mary Altaffer/Pool/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump received mixed legal news in New York Monday morning, with an appeals court handing the former president an…