Biden Promised to Crack Down on Egypt’s Dictator. Why Is the President Still Sending Him Weapons?
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/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.This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Egyptian revolution that toppled the three-decade rule of Hosni Mubarak and ushered in a chaotic sequence of crackdowns, a brief period…
The GOP’s Black Friend Says America Is Not a Racist Country
Senate Television/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.“America is not a racist country,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C) boldly declared in his response to President Joe Biden’s Joint Address to Congress on Wednesday evening. If Biden jam…
Lewandowski-Linked Lobby Shop Is the Latest Trump-Aligned Firm to Fall
Corey Lewandowski represents the Trump campaign at an event contesting ballot counting in Philadelphia on November 5, 2020.Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via ZUMA 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.Turnberry Solutions, a lobbying firm notable for aggressively advertising ties…
Escorts, Medical Weed, and Corruption: Gaetz Probe Reportedly Scrutinizing 2018 Bahamas Trip
Tom Williams/ZUMA 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.Several weeks after an explosive New York Times report into a Justice Department investigation examing whether Rep. Matt Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old that potentially broke…
House Passes a Bill to Make DC a State
J. Scott Applewhite/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.For the second time ever, the House of Representatives has passed a bill that would make Washington, DC, the 51st state. The bill, HR 51, which would finally…
Jim Jordan Started Ranting About “Lost Liberty” in the Pandemic. Dr. Fauci Wasn’t Having It.
Susan Walsh/Pool/CNP/Zuma 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.At a House coronavirus hearing on Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) began berating Dr. Anthony Fauci about the liberties he believes have been restricted thanks to mask mandates and…