Republicans Have Manufactured a Controversy Over the Chinese Spy Balloon
Larry Mayer/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A US military fighter jet shot down the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, but the Biden administration has a different kind of foe that has yet to be neutralized: attacks coming…
A New Poll Finds That Democrats Really Don’t Want Biden to Run Again
President Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic National Committee winter meeting on February 03, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As President Joe Biden prepares to launch his re-election campaign in the coming months, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll…
The Billionaire Koch Network Wants to Defeat Trump in 2024
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the New Hampshire Republican State Committee’s Annual Meeting on January 28, 2023 in Salem, New Hampshire. Scott Eisen/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Koch world is over Donald Trump. Americans for Prosperity Action, the group that spends millions…
The US Just Shot Down High-Altitude Chinese “Spy Balloon”
A photo of the high-altitude balloon floating over Billings, Montana, on Wednesday.Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The giant white, aerial blob that US officials described as a Chinese spy balloon was seen plummeting towards the Atlantic Ocean near Surfside Beach,…
A Historic Vote Just Reshaped the Democratic Primary. But There Are Battles Ahead.
President Biden himself championed the historic shake-up. Here he is speaking at the DNC’s winter conclave on Friday.Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Bucking decades of political tradition, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted for a new line-up of early primary dates in…
The $400 Billion Man Running America’s Clean Energy Transition
Jigar Shah, director of the Department of Energy’s loan programs office in Washington, D.C. Mother Jones; US Energy Department/Wikimedia This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Deep in the confines of the hulking, brutalist headquarters of the US Department of Energy, down one of its long, starkly…