Sam Bankman-Fried Was Indicted for Hundreds of Illegal Campaign Donations. Who Else Knew?
John Minchillo/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday prosecutors updated their indictments against former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, expanding on allegations the feds initially filed in December. Bankman-Fried ran the now-collapsed FTX crypto-trading platform and made a name for himself as a disheveled,…
Senator Who Helped Save Private Equity’s Favorite Loophole Goes to Work for Private Equity
Bill Clark / CQ Roll Call / AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One of my favorite recent documents in American politics is Evan Bayh’s schedules from his last year in office as a Democratic senator from Indiana. In the months following his 2010…
Whale Deaths Are Now Culture War Fodder
A humpback whale washed up on the shore of Lido Beach in Long Island, New York, on January 31, 2023.Kena Betancur / Getty This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Thousands gathered at New Jersey’s Point Pleasant beach on Sunday with a united mission: to pause offshore…
Will SCOTUS Overturn This 1996 Law Governing the Internet?
People wait in line outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2023.Jim Watson/AFP via Getty images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In November 2015, Nohemi Gonzalez was a 23-year-old California State University, Long Beach, student studying abroad in Paris. That’s…
Virginia Has Its Own Ron DeSantis, and He’s Taking Aim at African American Studies
Shaban Athuman/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In his seemingly never-ending quest to remove “divisive concepts” from Virginia’s schools, Gov. Glenn Youngkin has taken a page right out of Ron DeSantis’ playbook and called for a review of Virginia’s AP African…
The Corruption at Fox News Is Worse Than You Assumed
Fox News host Tucker Carlson laughs it up with Donald Trump at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on July 31, 2022.Seth Wenig/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter is written by David twice…