House Votes to Pass $95 Billion Foreign Aid Package for Ukraine and Israel
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Saturday, the US House of Representatives voted to pass a $95 billion foreign aid package to assist Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, as well as a TikTok ban requiring the…
Newt Gingrich Perfectly Describes How Everything Is His Fault
Charles Dharapak/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.With Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson struggling to hold onto the gavel in the face of eternal rebellion from some of his party’s most intransigent far-right members, Politico thought it would be a good idea…
Ralph Nader Would Like to Stop Having to Explain Why the Spoiler Coverage Is Stupid
Frustrated by the two-party system? Polling shows you’re not alone, with more Americans than ever supporting the idea of a third party. But the winner of November’s presidential election will be either Biden or Trump, and voters weighing other candidates need to consider if a protest vote to end the duopoly might instead help end…
America’s 806 Billionaires Are Now Richer Than Half the Population Combined—a Lot Richer
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Are you better off now than you were when Donald Trump was president? That’s a dumb question for Republicans to pose, because the answer by most measures would be, “Oh, heck yes!” But plenty of people…
Utilities Use Customers’ Money to Advance Fossil Fuels. This Coalition Aims to Stop Them.
Protesters gather in front of the American Gas Association to demand that funding from customers’ energy bills not be used to pay for the group’s anti-climate lobbying. Joy Asico-Smith/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A group of advocates and Democratic senators gathered in Washington, DC, on Tuesday…
Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Forbes’ annual list of the 400 richest Americans debuted in 1982 with shipping magnate Daniel Ludwig in the top slot. Ludwig’s wealth, the magazine reported, was $2 billion (about $6.3 billion in today’s dollars). That only 13 billionaires graced the…