Here’s a Long List of Top Republicans the 1/6 Committee Should Question
John Minchillo/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Tuesday morning, the House select committee investigating the insurrectionist January 6 assault on the US Capitol launched its hearings. The panel—which the House Republican caucus boycotted—opened with law enforcement officers who were attacked by…
How Flint Closed the Gap Between Black and White Suffering Under COVID
Just five minutes away from Debra Furr-Holden’s cluttered home office in Flint is the house she lived in as a teenager, on Pontiac Street, in a zip code that now has among the lowest life expectancies in the city: 73 years. I learned that last bit from Furr-Holden herself. She cited the figure the way…
We’ve Unmasked the Oath Keepers’ January 6 “Operations Leader”
Oath Keeper leader Michael Simmons, “Person Ten” in a January 6 conspiracy caseMother Jones illustration; Wave 3 News/Facebook; Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When members of the far-right militia network known as the Oath Keepers stormed the US Capitol on…
Armed Standoffs With the Government, “Uber Militias,” and Ammon Bundy’s Run to Be Idaho’s Next Governor
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.For six years now, Josh Thayer has been at war with his next-door neighbor over the location of their property lines in Salem, a small town in Utah. Thayer has been prosecuted for trespassing and cited for…
Banks Really Don’t Like Biden’s Push to Make It Easier to Move Your Money
President Joe Biden delivers remarks and signs an executive order on promoting competition in the American economy.Alex Edelman/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Earlier this month, President Biden signed a sweeping executive order aimed at creating more competition in the US economy.…
Anthony Fauci Warns US Is Headed in “Wrong Direction” on COVID-19
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a Senate hearing on July 20Stefani Reynolds/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.COVID-19 never went away in the United States, but for a while this summer, the widespread…