The Teamsters President Is Courting Trump—Despite His Anti-Labor Record
Mother Jones; Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/Sipa USA/AP; Mike Stewart/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Teamsters union general president Sean O’Brien is set to speak at the Republican National Convention next week—the culmination of several months of courting former president Donald Trump despite his anti-labor…
Biden’s Right: It Is an Orchestrated Attack
Mother Jones illustration; Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Amid a pivotal week for Joe Biden to demonstrate why he deserves to remain the Democratic nominee, the president is reportedly seething. And why wouldn’t he be? Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)…
A Right-Wing Mogul Is on Trial for a Massive Fraud Scheme. He Blames China.
Mother Jones illustration; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty; Richard B. Levine/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Lawyers for Guo Wengui—the exiled Chinese mogul on trial in New York for allegedly stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from investors in business ventures he launched—rested their case this…
Peter Singer Is Through With America
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In a Princeton University lecture hall one morning last December, Peter Singer, one of the world’s most influential—and controversial—living philosophers, offered his Philosophy 385 (“Practical Ethics”) students a brief overview of their upcoming final. The registrar, he noted,…
GOP plan to reverse final Title IX rule passes U.S. House, but Biden says he’d veto
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., is pictured on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Jennifer Shutt WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Thursday passed a measure to reverse an Education Department rule seeking to extend federal discrimination protections for LGBTQ students, though President Joe Biden has vowed to veto the legislation should it land on his desk.…
U.S. House fails to pass measure to hold attorney general in ‘inherent contempt’
The U.S. House rejected Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s resolution to fine Attorney General Merrick Garland for withholding audio recordings of President Joe Biden. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images WASHINGTON — In the latest U.S. House Republican attempt to secure audio tapes from the U.S. Justice Department special counsel’s interview with President Joe Biden, the U.S.…