At This Rally, Everyone Loves Biden—and Wants Him to Drop Out
Protesters demand US President Joe Biden drop out in front of the White House at a rally held on July 20, 2024.DANIEL SLIM/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. While President Joe Biden was holed up in Rehoboth, Delaware, recovering from Covid on Saturday…
It’s a Workers’ Party Now?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On the first night of the Republican National Convention, I settled into a seat in the upper levels of Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum to watch the most incongruous political address of my life. The speaker was Sean O’Brien, the…
I Found the “Secretary of Retribution” at the Republican Convention
Ivan Raiklin, a prominent election denier and Trump supporter, sits in the audience during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing.Graeme Sloan/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. I found the “Secretary of Retribution” on Tuesday, sitting on a…
J.D. Vance Supported Using the Comstock Act to Criminalize “Mail-Order Abortions”
Sen. J.D. Vance has recently claimed he believes mifepristone should be accessible—but new reporting shows that just a year ago, he was one of more than 40 Republican lawmakers who thought the opposite.Maxppp/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When former President Trump announced…
It Doesn’t Take a Conspiracy Theory to Explain Law Enforcement Incompetence
Nate Gowdy/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A notable trend over the last few years has been the Republican discovery of jail. I don’t just mean that a lot of Republicans have simply ended up there, although a number of them have.…
Megadonors Are Showering Donald Trump & Co With Cash
Mother Jones; Andrew Rice/Unsplash; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Campaign finance disclosures are made public too ridiculously slowly to be of much use for real-time political analysis, but they do reveal some general trends in terms of who supports whom, and how…