Why a Protest Leader in Myanmar Is Reluctantly Giving Up Nonviolence and Preparing for Combat
Anti-coup protesters flee military forces during a demonstration in Yangon.AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Desperate times breed desperate measures and often desperate challenges of faith. Late Monday night, I spoke by encrypted video with a…
Matt Gaetz, Reportedly Investigated for Sexual Relationship With Minor, Implodes on Tucker Carlson
Shortly after the New York Times reported that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is facing a Justice Department investigation over his alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old, the Florida congressman responded to the bombshell report on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, alleging that he’s the victim of a $25 million extortion scheme. But the strangest moments of…
Hope and Fear: Inside the Race between Vaccines and Variants
A woman draws red hearts representing individual coronavirus deaths onto the newly-unveiled National Covid Memorial Wall opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, England, on March 30, 2021. David Cliff/NurPhoto/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Earlier…
The Best Way to Protect Abortion Rights Right Now Is to End a Racist, Classist Federal Budget Amendment
Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Abortion advocates are finally on the offensive. Having barely made it through the last four years with Roe intact, the groups battling to protect the right to abortion can now,…
This Lawyer Went After Chevron. Now He’s 600 Days Into House Arrest.
The nights are hardest for Donziger, when he has to struggle to get his jeans off over the boxy tag and lie in bed next to his wife “with the government still there on my ankle”. Each morning he wakes up in angst. A flag reading “SOS Free Steven” sometimes flutters defiantly from the window,…
“VC Lives Matter”: Silicon Valley Investors Want to Oust San Francisco’s Reformist DA
Mother Jones illustration; Jeff Chiu/AP; Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was at home cooking dinner on a Thursday evening in January when he opened a new app called Clubhouse…