President Biden Is Skipping King Charles’ Coronation. Good.
Then Prince Charles with President Joe Biden at the Cop26 summit in 2021.Jane Barlow/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The coronation next month of Kaiser Wilhelm’s and Tsar Nicholas II’s distant cousin, Charles Philip Arthur George, as King of England is a big event,…
Actually, Former Presidents Do Get Indicted—and Not Just in “Banana Republics”
France’s Nicolas Sarkozy (left) and Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, seen here in 2009, were two former premiers charged with and convicted of crimes.Soeren Stache/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Almost immediately after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that he had indicted ex-president Donald Trump,…
How a Weapon of War Has Worsened the Mass Shootings Epidemic
Mother Jones; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It was a grim but not terribly surprising coincidence. Last Monday morning, just a few hours after the Washington Post published a new series on the popular semiautomatic rifles known as AR-15s, a suicidal 28-year-old used…
Arizona Utility Just Won’t Let This Historic Black Community Be
The stacks of the Salt River Project generating station near Randolph, Arizona. Caitlin O’Hara/Guardian This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A handful of weary residents gathered at the windowless Randolph church to mull over the latest effort by an electric utility to expand its power station—a…
Why Is Lauren Boebert Trolling Her Own Bill?
Gary Kramer/US Fish and Wildlife Service/AP/File Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last week, a bill introduced by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) received a hearing. For some congresspeople, this would not be news. For Boebert it is: In her first term, she sponsored 41 pieces…
Millions of Americans Are About to Get Kicked Off Medicaid
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Starting tomorrow, states will begin to terminate health care coverage for people who no longer qualify for Medicaid, marking the end to a pandemic-era rule that automatically renewed coverage for Medicaid recipients even if they were no longer eligible. An estimated…