Moms for Liberty Is Taking Over Banned Books Week
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s the American Library Association’s annual Banned Books Week, a tradition that started in 1982. This year, the theme is “Let Freedom Read!” in honor of record-breaking efforts to censor books now sweeping the nation’s libraries and schools. Yesterday, I…
Massive Changes Could Be Coming From the Vatican. Conservative US Catholics Are Mad as Hell.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This week, hundreds of delegates from around the world began a monthlong meeting as part of Pope Francis’ “Synod on Synodality”—a gathering to discuss the future of the Catholic Church. It could radically change the religion. The group is considering groundbreaking alterations…
The Disturbing Story of How America Saved the Buffalo
Mother Jones; Library of Congress; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If you attended high school in the United States, you likely learned about the “Great Slaughter” of the American buffalo: During the 19th century, with the aid of the railroad, hide hunters poured into…
Farm bill stalled amid U.S. House speaker battle, delay of spending bills
The farm bill is a multiyear omnibus law which authorizes an array of agricultural and food programs, including federal crop insurance, food stamp benefits and farm resource conservation. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder WASHINGTON — As Congress faces another pressing deadline to fund the government and the U.S. House grinds to a halt without a speaker, the…
GOP state senators train sights on review of Fulton County jail notorious for inmate deaths
Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones announced Thursday that a Senate Public Safety Subcommittee will hold its first meeting on Nov. 2 to discuss a Fulton County Jail beleaguered by overcrowding, inmate deaths, and violence. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder A Georgia Senate panel is set to launch the second outside government investigation into the dangerous conditions of…
Former Santos Treasurer Nancy Marks Pleads Guilty to Campaign Finance Schemes
George Santos’ former treasurer Nancy Marks leaving federal court in New York on Thursday.Mary Altaffer/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday afternoon, Nancy Marks, the former campaign treasurer for Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to defraud the…