Mark Zuckerberg Isn’t Done With Politics. His Politics Have Just Changed.
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that one of the world’s richest men had recently experienced a major epiphany. After bankrolling a political organization that supported immigration reform, espousing his support for social…
As Biden Speaks at UN of Peace, Netanyahu Promises to Keep Bombing Lebanon
President Joe Biden waves after his speech at the United Nations on Tuesday. Michael Kappeler/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When President Joe Biden first joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1975, it was taken as a sign that the 32-year-old legislator…
Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded. Antony Blinken Rejected Them.
September 9, 2024: Trucks carrying aid line up near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Imago/ZUMA Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was published first by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s…
Florida’s Maternity Homes Made Single Mothers Feel Like “Criminals”
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the years before the Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, Florida’s 55 reproductive health care clinics were a critical part of the national abortion infrastructure, caring for tens of thousands of…
Harris says she’d back an elimination of the filibuster to restore abortion rights
Vice President Kamala Harris departs Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport aboard Air Force 2, after speaking at a campaign rally inside West Allis Central High School on July 23, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jim Vondruska/Getty Images WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Tuesday during a radio interview that she supports changing a Senate procedure…
New stopgap bill in Congress would postpone shutdown deadline to December
The U.S. Capitol on Sept. 23, 2024. Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — Congress is on track to approve legislation this week that will give lawmakers until mid-December to broker agreement on the annual government funding bills that were supposed to become law before the end of this month. The stopgap spending bill, also known as…