The US Government Pushed Hundreds of Married Couples Into Disastrous Student Loans
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When the Biden administration made it easier last year for Americans doing public service work to have their student loans forgiven, thousands of borrowers saw their debts reduced or eliminated altogether. But some…
Texas’ Big Lie-Pushing, Scandal-Drenched AG Is Heading to a Runoff
November 1, 2021, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: Ken Paxton, Texas attorney general, offers remarks outside in front of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC, Monday, November 1, 2021. The Supreme Court of the United States agreed to review a controversial Texas abortion law but refused to block the law while…
Joe Biden Reveals His Enemies List—the Good Kind
President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi watch.Saul Loeb/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.You can often judge a…
Alexei Navalny Calls for Worldwide Protests to Demand End to War
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny looks at a camera while speaking from a prison via a video link.Denis Kaminev/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Russian dissident and persistent thorn in Vladimir Putin’s side Alexei Navalny on Wednesday called on Russians to take…
Pro-Putin Disinformation on Ukraine Is Thriving in Online Anti-Vax Groups
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ve seen how conspiracy theories can overlap and collide. I’ve documented how anti-vaccine groups embraced QAnon disinformation about liberal elites conspiring to unseat Trump, and how white nationalists find willing audiences for…
She Escaped From Ukraine. Now She’s Haunted by Guilt About Those She Left Behind.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Olha Martynyuk had purchased a plane ticket to Switzerland for Wednesday, February 23. The 36-year-old professor of the history of science and technology at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute had long planned the three-week working vacation in Basel…