Childless Adults and Stepparents Have Some Thoughts on JD Vance
Mother Jones; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the 1960s and 70s, Jane Goodman recalls dealing with systemic misogyny. Women were not able to get credit cards in their own names until 1974, for example. Now 78, Goodman, a former actress…
Delegates for the Thousands Who Voted “Uncommitted” Want a DNC Speaker
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan speaks during a vigil organized by Health Workers Alliance for Palestine in Toronto on November 30, 2023.Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. As the Democratic National Convention kicked off its virtual roll-call vote this morning, the Uncommitted movement—an…
JD Vance Called Democrats a “Childless Cabal,” But We Did the Math
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The internet has been burning up this past week with the many, many faux pas—faux paws?—of Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, what with his “childless cat ladies” thing, his endorsement of a reprehensible…
The Big Money Push to Oust Cori Bush
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On her 48th birthday, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) celebrated by campaigning. Yes, there was cake, and there was singing, and there was a DJ, but there was also—a little under three weeks out from a heated…
U.S. Senate fails to advance expanded child tax credit, despite broad House support
Children from the KU Kids Deanwood Childcare Center complete a mural celebrating the launch of the Child Tax Credit on July 14, 2021 at the KU Kids Deanwood Childcare Center in Washington, D.C. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Community Change WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans and two independents blocked a bipartisan tax package Thursday that would have…
Wall Street Journal reporter, former Marine, Putin critics freed in prisoner swap
President Joe Biden, joined by relatives of prisoners freed by Russia, delivers remarks in the State Dining Room at the White House on Aug. 1, 2024, on the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan from Russian captivity. The two, along with Alsu Kurmasheva, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen…