How Many Republicans Think GOP Legislatures Should Overturn Election Results?
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The headline on this CNN story says that “senior” Republicans are getting nervous about Donald Trump’s unwillingness to face reality. Maybe so, though they don’t really offer much evidence of that.…
Big Cash Is Continuing to Flood Into the Georgia Runoffs that Will Determine Senate Control
Georgia Democratic candidates for US Senate Raphael Warnock, left, and Jon Ossoff, right, during a campaign rally on Nov. 15, 2020, in Marietta, Ga. Brynn Anderson/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Fueled by new tools to…
Facebook Fuels Toxic Content, But Fox News Is Still the Superspreader
Democrats and Republicans alike have been eagerly grilling the CEOs of social media companies lately about their complicity in spreading disinformation. This is being done under the implied threat that if they don’t do something, Congress will do it for them. I have a problem with this. Two problems, actually. First, everyone would be outraged…
Georgia Senator David Perdue Privately Pushed for a Tax Break for Rich Sports Team Owners
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as…
Donald Trump Jr. Has COVID-19
Rusty Jones/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Donald Trump Jr. is the latest member of the president’s inner circle to test positive for COVID-19. The president’s son is asymptomatic and has been in quarantine since early…
How the GOP Is Helping Trump’s War on Democracy
Erin Schaff/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On Thursday afternoon, something obscene happened. One of the two major parties hosted an event where the president’s lawyers spewed an unfounded and nutso conspiracy theory in an effort…