The Texas Abortion Ban Has Turned Clinics Into Travel Agencies
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Patients entering the bright third-floor offices of Houston Women’s Reproductive Services used to follow the familiar steps for a routine medical appointment: check in, get your blood pressure taken, have other vitals examined. But for the…
You Will Totally Believe Which “News” Network Won’t Be Showing the January 6 Hearings Live
Donald Trump and Laura Ingraham.Luis M. Alvarez/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On the week of the long-awaited January 6 hearings, America’s top-rated cable news network announced that it wouldn’t carry any of them live. Instead, Fox News will continue to…
The January 6 Committee Doesn’t Need New “Bombshells.” We Already Know What Happened.
Mother Jones illustration; Evan Vucci/AP; Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Sometimes one quote sums up a problem perfectly. As the congressional committee investigating January 6 prepared to begin its public hearings, Sunday show host Margaret Brennan of CBS posed a…
Sarah Palin Has Her Eye on a Seat in Congress. She’ll Have to Beat 47 Other Candidates to Get It.
Palin at an Anchorage campaign event on April 20, 2022.Mark Thiessen/ AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Alaska has just one seat in the House of Representatives, and Sarah Palin (she’s back, baby!) wants it. Earlier this spring, when the former…
True the Vote Raised Millions to Combat Voter Fraud—But No One Really Knows Where the Money Went
This article was produced Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, which is a nonprofit investigative newsroom. Sign up to get their investigations emailed to you directly. Over the last two presidential election cycles, True the Vote has raised millions in donations with claims that it discovered tide-turning voter fraud. It’s promised to release its evidence. It never has. …
Will Nebraska Build a $500 Million Canal Just to Own the Libs?
Ricketts with Iowa’s Kim Reynolds at a regional governors conference in July 2021. Jerry Mennenga/ZUMA Press This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Earlier this spring, Nebraska lawmakers passed a bill authorizing construction of a canal that would siphon water from neighboring Colorado, igniting a war of…