A Pro-Trump Voting “Expert” Was Questioned About His Data. It Did Not Go Well for Him.
Matt Braynard, a onetime Trump campaign operative, has produced analyses of the 2020 vote in swing states that claim massive amounts of illegal votes were cast. He has testified alongside Rudy Giuliani, as the the personal lawyer for Donald Trump crusades to overturn the election. Braynard’s work has been cited in a number of GOP lawsuits seeking to…
How a Private Prison Company’s Defamation Suit Against One of Its Critics Backfired
Robyn Beck/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.The mother who would end the Trump administration’s family separation policy arrived at the US-Mexico border in November 2017 with her 6-year-old daughter in tow. Ms. L, as she…
Friday Cat Blogging – 11 December 2020
Smart, Fearless Journalism Politics Environment Crime and Justice Food Media Investigations Photos Magazine Podcasts Monika Bauerlein, CEO What a year. For my year-end column, “There’s No Quick Fix For Healing Democracy,” I unpack how change happens and why 2021 has got to be the year we commit to building democratic infrastructure. That includes journalism, and…
There’s No Quick Fix For Healing Democracy
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.Fourteen billion. That’s how much the 2020 election cost, all in all. For perspective, that’s twice as much as the 2016 election and heading toward three times as much as 2008.…
White House to FDA: Approve Pfizer Vaccine Or Else
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.Oh great. This should help make everyone more confident that the Pfizer vaccine isn’t being rushed through due to political pressure: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Friday told…
How Do People Really Decide Which Health Care Plan to Choose?
Margot Sanger-Katz writes about the difficulty of choosing a health care plan: The range of choice is generally heralded as a good thing….But it turns out in real life most people are terrible at picking the health plan that is right for them. Health insurance is a complicated financial product, and study after study has…