Hero of 2022: Those LA Police Funding Billboards
Mother Jones; Kenneth Mejia About a month after President Joe Biden declared in his State of the Union address that the answer to crime is to “fund the police, fund them, fund them,” a mint green billboard appeared above a gas station one block from a northern Los Angeles Police Department precinct. Passersby who happened…
Under US Law, Southwest Passengers Seeking Compensation Could Be Stranded All Over Again
A traveler searches for a suitcase in a baggage holding area for Southwest Airlines at Denver International Airport on December 28, 2022. More than 15,000 flights have been canceled by airlines since winter weather began impacting air travel on December 22.Michael Ciaglo/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow…
George Santos Is Now Under Investigation as Even More Lies and Inconsistencies Surface
The Washington Post/ Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.George Santos, the Republican congressman-elect who has come under fire for a growing list of inconsistent and false claims about his financial, employment, and familial history, is facing multiple investigations, including an inquiry announced…
Hero of 2022: The New Three-Digit National Mental Health Crisis Hotline, 988
Mother Jones; Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA I imagine (hope?) I’m not the only person who momentarily forgets my sister’s phone number when the doctor’s office requests my emergency contact information. Hell, sometimes I even forget my own number when the grocery store clerk asks me to plug it in to claim rewards and fuel points.…
George Santos Keeps Giving Inconsistent Stories About His Mystery Millions
The Washington Post/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.George Santos, the New York Republican who was elected to the House in November, has drawn much attention for his audacious lying. As a candidate, he said he had attended Baruch College. He said he worked for Goldman…
Hero of 2022: Dwight Garner Whose Evisceration of Jared Kushner’s Book Is Perfection
Mother Jones; Macmillan; Broadside Books There is a kind of genius in writing the savage review. Sometimes they become assessments of an artist that endure long after the works critiqued have faded from popular memory. The former New York Times chief book critic Michiko Kakutani (once called “the Queen of Mean”) described The Discomfort Zone, a…