“Our Job Is to Make Sure They’re Safe”: America Confronts Election Intimidation
Residents in Anchorage, Alaska wait to vote.Mark Thiessen/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This article was originally published by News21, a Carnegie-Knight and Walter Cronkite School national student investigative project. Exactly seven days had passed since the 2020 presidential election when Tina Barton sat…
Derision and Danger: The Democrats Figure Out How to Attack Trump
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama at the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa/AP The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign…
Summer studies: Georgia legislators in the thick of a season of peering ahead to next session
Lawmakers, industry leaders and subject matter experts are now huddling together to dig into some of the thornier issues that proved too unwieldy to tackle during a jam-packed three-month legislative session last winter. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder College football is back, pumpkin-flavored everything has returned, and the legislative study committee schedule is loaded with meetings. Fall…
That Time a California Lawmaker Tried Getting Rid of Gas-Powered Vehicles
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nicholas Petris, born to Greek immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1923, could remember a time when electric trucks were a common sight on the streets of Oakland. In fact, just a couple decades before his birth, both electric and…
Trump Is Threatening to Jail Political Enemies. So Are Democrats.
Mark Schiefelbein/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In December, Trump adviser Kash Patel set off alarm bells when he said that if the former president returns to the Oval Office, his new administration might prosecute media figures and others “who lied about American…
Months Before It Happened, Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s Mother Was Haunted by His Death
Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s parents attend a demonstration on August 29, 2024, by the families of the hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attack.JACK GUEZ/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last year, in one of her first interviews with the international press, Rachel…