Biden decries campus antisemitism in Holocaust remembrance speech
President Joe Biden seen speaking from the White House on Feb. 8, 2024. Biden warned in a Holocaust remembrance speech Tuesday of rising antisemitism. Nathan Howard/Getty Images WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden warned Tuesday of rising antisemitism in the U.S. and said too many are forgetting the attack on Israel in October. During a Holocaust…
New York Is Suing Crisis Pregnancy Centers for Promising “Abortion Reversal”
Mother Jones; Lev Radin/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Abortion rights advocates might be surprised to learn that, in deep-blue New York, anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers outnumber abortion clinics. There are more than 120 such centers (known as CPCs, though they also go…
Kristi Noem Takes Aim at Second Target: Biden’s Dog
Mother Jones; Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA/AP, Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Fresh off the heels of attracting bipartisan repulsion over the admission that she killed her own dog, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Sunday suggested that President Joe Biden’s dog, Commander,…
The Promise of Health Chatbots Has Already Failed
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Not long ago, I noticed a new term trending in social media wellness circles: “certified hormone specialist.” I could have investigated it the old-fashioned way: googling, calling up an expert or two, digging into the scientific literature. I’m accustomed…
Forcing Workers Back to the Office Could Be Terrible for the Environment
Software engineer Leisen Huang working at Wonder Workshop, San Mateo, California, in 2015. Mother Jones; Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and Fast Company and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When office workers stopped working in offices in 2020, trading their cubicles for living room couches during COVID-19 lockdowns,…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene huddles with U.S. House speaker she’s trying to oust
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Rome Republican, and GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky speak to reporters in Statuary Hall after meeting with U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., in the U.S. Capitol Building on May 06, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Last week, Greene threatened to move forward with a ‘motion to…