Yet Another Republican Comes Out Against No-Fault Divorce
Zach D Roberts/ZUMA Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Erstwhile GOP presidential candidate and current vice-presidential hopeful Ben Carson has joined right-wing peers like Speaker of the House Mike Johnson in supporting the end—or at least the rolling back—of no-fault divorce laws across the…
Report: After Promising to Halt Bomb Shipment, Biden Moving to Send $1 Billion More in Weapons to Israel
Mother Jones; Lenin Nolly/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After officials repeatedly warned that they would consider stopping the flow of weapons to Israel if it pressed forward with a ground invasion into Rafah, the Biden administration announced it would nonetheless attempt to…
Learning to Love My Trans Self After Conversion Therapy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Growing up, Myles Markham always felt like an outsider. Markham was multiracial in small, mostly white Florida towns. And they were queer. “I was swimming in water that told me that who I was, what I was, needed to change…
First They Tried to “Cure” Gayness. Now They’re Fixated on “Healing” Trans People.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The conversion therapists met last November at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip. Behind the closed doors and drawn blinds of a Hampton Inn conference room, a middle-aged woman wearing white stockings and a Virgin Mary blue dress…
West Virginia Voters Reject January 6 Rioter Running for Congress
Derrick Evans raises his hand during a swearing-in ceremony to the West Virginia House of Delegates on Dec. 1, 2020, in Charleston, W.Va. Will Price/West Virginia Legislative Photography via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.West Virginia voters had an unenviable choice of congressional…
House Dems Launch Investigation Into Trump’s Meeting With Oil Executives
During a July 2020 visit to a Double Eagle Energy rig in Midland, Texas, then president Donald Trump signed four new oil exploration permits.Tony Gutierrez/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. House Democrats have launched an investigation into a meeting between oil company executives and Donald Trump at…