Far-Right Extremism Has Become One of the Intelligence Community’s Rising Threats
Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner/Bloomberg/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.When the US intelligence community last released its public assessment of global threats at the beginning of 2019, white supremacism was barely mentioned. The 42-page report devoted one…
Why Puerto Rico Statehood Is So Much More Complicated Than It Is for DC
Ronald Lopez/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.As the partisan bias of the Senate, which favors sparsely populated states with overwhelmingly white populations, has been more broadly recognized, statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto…
Democrats’ Next Plan to Get Biden’s Agenda Over the Finish Line: Fire the Scorekeeper
CBO Director Phillip Swagel testifies before the House Budget Committee on January 29, 2020.Caroline Brehman 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.President Joe Biden unveiled a $2.25 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan last month and has promised to…
Progressives Are Already Pissed About Joe Biden’s Defense Budget
Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg/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.Late Thursday night, several news outlets reported that the Biden administration plans to request $715 billion in Pentagon spending for the next fiscal year. Presidential budgets are a legally…
An Ex-Google Lobbyist Who Backed Jim Jordan Is Leading Big Tech’s Bid to Court the Left
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other tech executives testified before the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee on July 29, 2020. 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.How is Big Tech navigating the Biden era? Consider the newest industry…
Will the Public Ever Get a Full Accounting of Trump’s Disastrous COVID Response?
Hospital workers wheel out bodies to be stored in a portable morgue outside Brooklyn Hospital. Braulio Jatar/SIPA via 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.It was one of the most dramatic moments to occur in a…