The Real Reason People Are Treating Themselves With Horse Dewormer
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In the last few weeks, the pandemic has taken yet another strange new twist: Americans are attempting to treat themselves with a livestock dewormer called ivermectin. So many have sought this DIY cure, that the FDA issued…
What’s on the Line in the California Recall?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In February 2020, at the start of the drive to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom, axing the widely popular Democrat was the fringe project of anti-maskers, QAnon believers, and the state’s ever-shrinking hard right. For months, that’s…
The Cost of the Post-9/11 Security State Is $21 Trillion, Report Finds
Lcpl. Nicholas Guevara/U.S. Mari/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The war in Afghanistan is coming to a close just days before the 20th anniversary of its preceding event: the 9/11 attacks. Even as the US government pledges…
Texas Republicans Pass Voting Restrictions to Solidify Anti-Democratic Hold on Power
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan opens the special session called by Gov. Greg Abbott on July 8 in Austin. Eric Gay/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It has long been assumed that as America heads toward a future in which people of…
The Anti-Vax Lawyer Representing Jan. 6 Rioters Has Suddenly Gone Missing
Nam Y. Huh/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.John Pierce, the right-wing lawyer representing 17 defendants accused of storming the Capitol, has failed to appear at several court appearances over the past week, sparking the Justice Department to issue a rare warning…
It Took Approximately Zero Seconds for Hawks to Make the Afghanistan Withdrawal About China
Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Over the past two weeks, virtually every national security expert has found a way to weigh in on the United States’ chaotic departure from Afghanistan. But at a time when the foreign policy conversation in…