“Not Necessary”: The Biden Administration Just Canceled More Border Wall Contracts
Border wall construction ongoing on farmland in Texas last year.Eric Gay/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Friday, the Biden administration canceled two border wall contracts along 31 miles of the Rio Grande in South Texas—continuing the process it began this spring…
Mississippi Urges Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Oct. 12, 2020.Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Thursday, the state of Mississippi filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down…
Civil Rights Groups to Biden: Abolish Filibuster to Protect Voting Rights
Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., center, and Cliff Albright, right, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, are arrested with activists during a protest to support voting rights outside of Hart Building on July 22, 2021. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free…
Her DACA Application Was Pending. Then a Federal Judge in Texas Ruled Against the Program.
Karla Mercado Dorado (left) applied for DACA for the first time in December.Courtesy of Karla Mercado Dorado Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Karla Mercado Dorado left Bolivia when she was two years old, which means the United States is the only home…
Republicans Suddenly Want You to Get Vaccinated. They Hope You Listen to Their Pelosi-Bashing More.
Tom Williams/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Republican leaders who have spent the pandemic bucking mask mandates, railing against so-called vaccine passports, and largely sitting on the sidelines of vaccine outreach appear to be undergoing a strange and abrupt shift this week.…
Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.There have been many contributions to help make sense of the Republican obsession with critical race theory, a framework developed some 40 years ago to analyze the ways racism is endemic to our laws and policies. Conservatives…