Warnock Vs. Walker: Five Big Takeaways From Their Only Debate
Georgia Senate candidates incumbent Raphael Warnock and challenger Herschel Walker convene in Savannah, Georgia on Oct. 14 for their only debate ahead of the November 2022 election.Photo by Greg Nash/The Hill/Nexstar Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday night, incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock,…
January 6 Committee’s Finale: The Importance of Retelling the Tale of Trump’s Treachery
Mother Jones illustration; Michael Nigro/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Feel sympathy for the members of the January 6 House Select Committee. They were handed a task simultaneously easy and arduous: demonstrating to the American public that a president—fully supported by one of the…
Prosecutors Cite Mother Jones to Debunk Claim by Oath Keepers’ Founder
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How a Hostile America Undermined Its Black World War II Veterans
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In August 1944, just two months after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (a.k.a. the GI Bill of Rights), Harry McAlpin, Washington correspondent for the National Negro Publishers Association, warned that the new law, though race-neutral…
“My Only Regret Is That They Should Have Brought Rifles”
Oath Keepers’s founder Stewart Rhodes at a 2017 event. Susan Walsh/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Justice Department’s case against five members of the Oath Keepers militia group is so extensive that it is expected to take a month lay out. But it is…
How One Man Helped Make America a Global Tax Haven
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During the mid-1990s, trust and estate lawyer Jonathan Blattmachr had an innovative idea that would come to revolutionize the American trust industry. Blattmachr is a veteran of the wealth management field, cutting his teeth at…