Report: US Intel Officials Believe Russia Secretly Backed Albanian Candidate
Lulzim Basha, the former leader of Leader of the Democratic Party of Albania, seen here in 2021, denies receiving secret funding from Russia.Visar Kryeziu/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Back in 2018, Mother Jones reported that payments made by a shell company to an…
Union Leaders and Rail Companies Have Reached a Tentative Deal to Avert a Strike
A rail worker at the Selkirk rail yard in New York this month.Hans Pennink/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday morning, rail companies and union leaders reached a tentative deal that will avert a strike or lockout that could have begun as soon as…
How Trump Spread Incitement of Violence Throughout the GOP
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Just hours after federal agents entered Mar-a-Lago on August 8 to seize highly classified national security documents, Rep. Paul Gosar urged a fight to the finish. “The FBI raid on Trump’s home tells us one thing,” the far-right Arizona…
Republican Governors Just Sent Biden a Letter About Student Debt Relief That Misses the Point
Protestors outside the Education Department in April called on Joe Biden to cancel student debt.Allison Bailey/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a letter sent to the president on Wednesday, nearly half of American governors—all Republican—voiced their opposition to Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan,…
The Looming Rail Strike Was Years in the Making
A Norfolk Southern train in Elkhart, Indiana, last month. David Boe/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Rail workers across the country may be on the verge of going on strike for the first time in three decades—a decision that would immediately cripple supply chains…
Fossil-Fuel Boosters Have Criminalized Climate Protests Across America
Raymond Kingfisher and other Indigenous foes of the Dakota Access Pipeline rally in Washington, DC, in March 2017.Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wir This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republican-led legislatures have passed anti-protest laws drafted by an extreme right corporate lobbying group in a third of all…