Sen. Joe Manchin Won’t Seek Reelection in 2024
Stefani Reynolds/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia will not run for reelection next year. The conservative Democrat called the choice—which he shared the news of in a video he posted to X—”one of the toughest decisions of my…
Republicans Want to Deport Students for Speaking Out on Israel-Hamas War
Rebecca Blackwell/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.GOP presidential candidates are threatening to deport international students who they accuse of sympathizing with anti-Israel terrorists. “If you are here on a student visa as a foreign national, and you’re making common cause with Hamas, I’m…
White House: Israel to “Pause” Attacks Daily, But No Ceasefire
Palestinians carry a wounded girl after being rescued from under the rubble of buildings that were destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.Abed Khaled/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Israel will pause fighting in the northern Gaza strip for four…
We Don’t Have to Guess What MLK Thought About the Israel-Palestine Conflict
This June 1966 photo shows thousands of civil rights demonstrators joining Martin Luther King Jr. on the last leg of the Mississippi March. The following summer, the Six-Day War would scuttle King’s plans to visit Israel.Charles Kelly/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.People of…
Louisiana’s New Governor Is a Major Fossil Fuel Booster
Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate change looms larger in Louisiana than it does almost anywhere else in the United States. The state is facing down monster hurricanes as well as sea-level rise, and it still relies on a fossil fuel industry that…
A Chinese Mogul Who Penetrated Trumpworld Was Investigated by FBI Counterintelligence Agents
Mother Jones illustration; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In 2019, Guo Wengui was building a political empire in the United States. Guo—a real estate mogul who had recently fled China and styled himself as a leading critic of the Chinese Communist…