Watch Barack Obama Attack a GOP Senator for Eyeing Social Security Cuts
Former President Barack Obama campaigns for Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, in Milwaukee.Morry Gash/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Barack Obama is campaigning in key battleground states for Democrats ahead of the midterm election. And in…
Experts Are Seeing a Wave of QAnon-linked Crimes. The Attack on Pelosi’s Husband Might Be the Latest.
Doug Jensen, center, confronts U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber, during the January 6 attack. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.David DePape, the man accused of bludgeoning the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi early…
US Finally Releases 75-Year-Old Guantanamo Bay Inmate
Tents used for overflow housing for Office of Military Commissions personnel at Camp Justice, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Alex Brandon/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Guantanamo Bay detention center isn’t anyone’s idea of an assisted living facility. But the controversial…
GOP Secretary of State Candidates Scheduled to Appear with a White Nationalist and Conspiracy Theorists
Mark Finchem, GOP candidate for Arizona secretary of state, attends a conference on conspiracy theories about voting machines and discredited claims about the 2020 presidential election in West Palm Beach, Florida, September 10, 2022. The event featured Republicans running for statewide offices that oversee elections in some of the most important battleground states. Jim Rassol/AP…
US Culture Wars Have Stormed the Hyper-Polarized Brazilian Elections
A supporter of President Jair Bolsonaro confronts a supporter of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Eraldo Peres/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The first time many Brazilians heard of Nikolas Ferreira was the day the newly elected federal lawmaker received the highest…
JFK Jr.’s Iconic Magazine Is Back From the Dead. You Can Thank QAnon.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Virtually every one of the 70 or so speakers at Michael Flynn’s ReAwaken America tour last weekend in Manheim, Pennsylvania, had something to sell, and Gene Ho was no exception. There was his book, TRUMPography: How…