Trump Inauguration Corruption Case Involving Ivanka and Don Jr. Moves Ahead
Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. listen as their father speaks during a campaign rally.Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Donald Trump’s expanding legal worries stemming from investigations in New York and Scotland have received much attention in recent months. But…
Big GOP Donors Poured Money Into Kyrsten Sinema’s Campaign in September
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Arizona Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema has spent the last six weeks under increasing pressure from progressives to stop obstructing President Joe Biden’s agenda. Along with fellow Democratic moderate Joe Manchin (D-W.V.),…
The High Human Cost of America’s Sugar Habit
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It was 5 a.m. and still dark as we rolled west out of Santo Domingo, on a cool morning in May 2019. We rode through the tourist zone, past whitewashed Spanish colonial buildings, pointing our truck toward…
Who’s Funding the California Recall Fight? It’s Not the People.
Rich Pedroncelli/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Recall elections are ostensibly designed to give citizens an opportunity to change the course of state politics from the bottom up. But when it comes to who is financing California’s recall battle, there is little…
Trump Sues Facebook, Google, and Twitter: Is It All About the Grift?
Seth Wenig/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.On Wednesday morning, the former leader of the Free World proclaimed to the globe his latest priority: suing Facebook, Google (which owns YouTube), and Twitter for banning him from…
Dark Money Is About to Get Much Darker
Charles Koch, chief executive officer of Koch Industries, in 2019.AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File 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 conservative Supreme Court majority ruled in favor of the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity on Thursday, holding that…