Youthful state lawmakers in Future Caucus gather in Georgia to peer into crystal ball
From left, Arthur Blank Foundation President and Director Fay Twersky, Georgia state Reps. Park Cannon and Jasmine Clark and Alabama state Rep. Jeremy Gray lock arms in a get-to-know-you exercise at the Future Caucus’ Future Summit South. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder Gen Z and Millennial state leaders from around the South came to Atlanta this weekend…
Tribal Leaders Ban Gov. Kristi Noem From 20 Percent of South Dakota
Ron Sachs/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Gov. Kristi Noem has had a tough stretch…of her own making. Ahead of the publication of her new book last week, No Going Back, the South Dakota Republican has been on a clean-up tour after it emerged…
UN Officials Describe “Absolutely Catastrophic” Conditions in Gaza
Displaced Palestinians from Rafah arrive in Khan Yunis after Israel’s evacuation order.Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Humanitarian officials are warning of increasingly dire conditions in Rafah as the Israeli army orders tens of thousands of civilians to evacuate the city in advance…
Israel Orders New Rafah Evacuations
Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Israel on Saturday ordered hundreds of thousands in Rafah to evacuate immediately as Israeli military forces prepared to expand further into Gaza’s southernmost city amid a devastating humanitarian crisis. The warning, which arrived in the form…
Melania Trump Says Hell No to Barron Serving as a GOP Delegate
Andrew Harnik/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Barron Trump’s political debut has been shelved—for now—after his mother, Melania Trump, effectively rebuffed an invitation for her 18-year-old son to serve as a delegate at the GOP convention this summer. “While Barron is honored to have…
The Founder of Mother’s Day Mostly Cared About Her Own Mother
Mother Jones; AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It seems like such a simple idea: a day to honor the women who bring life into the world. But how do we square the ideal of celebrating and supporting mothers with the reality of…