Trump’s Truth Social Lost $58 Million Last Year!
Lev Radin/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social landed last week on the stock market as a publicly traded company with a whole lot of hype—share prices rocketed as high as $79, instantly adding as much $6.2 billion…
She Has Investigated Allegations of Sexual Violence in War Around the World. Here’s What She Wants You to Know.
Mother Jones; Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Despite being “the cheapest weapon known to man,” sexual violence in war is “almost always ignored in the history books,” writes journalist Christina Lamb in her 2020 book, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the…
The Invisible Work of America’s Domestic Workers
This story is a collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Magnum Foundation. We asked photographers to show us the paradox of today’s labor movement. Even as the popularity of unions has grown over the last decade, actual membership has continued to decline. Can new enthusiasm revitalize American labor? Read about this unique moment…
An Academic’s Grand Unified Theory on Why Things Are Getting Worse
Mother Jones; Courtesy of Peter Turchin Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Pessimism is in. Swaths of the global elite are uncertain enough about the future to be fortifying their doomsday bunkers designed to evade both popular uprisings and climate catastrophe. “Billions must die,” a…
Biden campaign, Jan. 6 officers decry Trump use of ‘political violence’ in post of video
Left to right, former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone, Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, former U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell, and former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn are shown attending a hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office…
Biden to visit Port of Baltimore Friday to review federal response on Key Bridge
Debris is cleared from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge as efforts begin to reopen the Port of Baltimore on March 31, 2024, in Baltimore, Maryland. The bridge fell into the Patapsco River after being struck by the Dali, a cargo ship leaving the port at around 1:30am on Tuesday. The bodies of two men…