Thank You, SNL, for This Perfect Skit About Trump’s Grip on Senate Republicans
As I watched Donald Trump’s South Carolina victory speech this weekend, I was struck by how many back-handed compliments he doled out to his Republican allies. In introducing Sen. Lindsey Graham, for instance, who has represented South Carolina for more than 20 years, Trump referred to him as a man “not a lot of people”…
Trump Claims His Mug Shot Wins Him Black Voters
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump decisively won South Carolina’s GOP primary election against challenger Nikki Haley on Saturday, with the former president earning about 60 percent of Republican votes to Haley’s 40 percent. “This was a little sooner…
In CPAC speech, Trump predicts ‘losing World War III’ if he is not elected
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on Feb. 24, 2024 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump painted a bleak picture Saturday of what would happen to the…
Video Shows Nonbinary Teen Nex Benedict Reflecting on Fight Before Their Death
A screenshot from newly released body camera footage of a police officer’s interview with Nex Benedict in the hospital.Owasso Police Department/YouTube Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The death of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teenager in Oklahoma, after a fight in school bathroom earlier this…
Secretly Intercepted Phone Calls Show How Russia’s Propaganda Fueled Violence
Iryna Kalinina, 32, an injured pregnant woman, is carried from a maternity hospital that was damaged during a Russian airstrike in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9, 2022Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On February 16, Russian authorities announced that Aleksei Navalny, President Vladimir…
How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check
Smokestacks at the Dearborn Industrial Generation facility in Dearborn, MI.Jim West / ZUMA This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation like the Clean Air Act. Efforts like…