Pride and Prejudice in JD Vance Country
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Editor’s note: Eight years ago, on the eve of the 2016 election, Mother Jones published a story by Arlie Russell Hochschild, a renowned sociologist who had spent five years interviewing a group of white Southern conservatives to understand…
Lost in the Crowd: The Hidden Biases of Medical Fundraising
Mother Jones; Marc Studer Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.More than 100 million Americans have medical debt, with half owing more than $2,000; disabled people are twice as likely to have it than those without disabilities. Annually, around half a million Americans are pushed into bankruptcy…
Ruby Bridges Blasts Book Bans As “Ridiculous” Attempts to “Cover Up History”
Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate an elementary school in the South, thinks book bans are “ridiculous.” Rogelio V. Solis/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges is an integral part of U.S. history lessons in classrooms nationwide, given…
This Terrifying Book Is a Must-Read for Every World Leader
Mother Jones illustration; photo by Hilary Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Nuclear war is a topic few care to think about. We sometimes call it unthinkable. But we need to think carefully, and to talk—particularly with high-ranking foreign officials whose motives we may…
America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This article was adapted from Nuclear War: A Scenario, published March 26, 2024, by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright 2024 by Annie M. Jacobsen. Nuclear war is madness. Were…
Fani Willis Can Remain in Charge of Trump Prosecution in Georgia
Fani WillisNatrice Miller/TNS/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can continue to oversee the Georgia criminal prosecution of Donald Trump, so long as the special prosecutor she hired for the case, Nathan Wade, steps aside, a Georgia judge ruled…