A Gazan Mother’s Harrowing Journey to Give Birth
Palestinians inspect the damage at Al-Shifa Hospital complex, following a two-week military operation by the Israeli army in Gaza City.Omar Ishaq/Picture-Alliance/DPA/AP Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In Gaza, the health care system has collapsed, but nearly 200 women each day still need to find…
Kamala Harris Isn’t Letting Trump Dodge on Abortion
Kamala Harris speaks on reproductive freedom at El Rio Neighborhood Center in Tucson, Arizona, on April 12.Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Days after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a near-total ban on abortion could be enforced in the state, Kamala…
How Famine and Starvation Can Affect Generations to Come
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Famine is already happening in parts of Gaza, a top US humanitarian official publicly acknowledged this week for the first time. After six months of Israeli war and blockades, an estimated 2.2 million people are facing…
John Bolton to Vote for Dick
Supporters cheer remarks by Vice President Dick Cheney at a rally in 2004. To our knowledge, John Bolton was not in attendance.ANN HEISENFELT/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On CNN, John Bolton, a former national security adviser to Donald Trump and rabid war lover…
Why a Porn Star-Payoff Is Exactly the Right First Criminal Trial for Donald Trump
Mother Jones; Lev Radin/Sipa USA/AP, Markus Schreiber/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Out of the four criminal cases that Donald Trump faces, the one scheduled to begin on Monday in a New York City courtroom is not the prosecution that most addresses the threat…
The Conservative War on Democracy Was Over 200 Years in the Making
Mother Jones illustration; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Everyone seems to be talking about saving democracy this year. “American democracy, that’s what the 2024 election is all about,” Joe Biden has emphasized, painting the threat of Donald Trump’s return to power as the…