“All I Want Is My Baby Brother Back”
AP Photo/Jeff Roberson Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Three weeks after his death at the hands of Memphis police, Tyre Nichols is finally being laid to rest. On Wednesday, friends and family gathered to celebrate Nichols’ life at the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in…
Hero of 2022: Those LA Police Funding Billboards
Mother Jones; Kenneth Mejia About a month after President Joe Biden declared in his State of the Union address that the answer to crime is to “fund the police, fund them, fund them,” a mint green billboard appeared above a gas station one block from a northern Los Angeles Police Department precinct. Passersby who happened…
Hundreds of New York Women Are About to Sue Alleged Rapists (and Enablers) Under a Revolutionary New Law
Kena Betancur/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For years, former president Donald Trump has been able to push off a lawsuit filed against him by E. Jean Carroll, a writer and advice columnist who says he raped her in a department store dressing room…
Republicans Hoped a “Crime Wave” Was Their Ticket to a Red Wave. It Wasn’t.
Mother Jones illustration; Maria Lysenko/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Leading up to the election, Republicans relentlessly blasted voters with campaign ads about crime, offering them brutal images of shootings and assaults and suggesting that if progressives got their way, murderers would run rampant…
On Crime, Fetterman and Oz Aren’t as Polar Opposite as You Might Think
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, left, and Dr. Mehmet OzAP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If there’s one thing Dr. Mehmet Oz wants you to believe, it’s that his opponent Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is soft on crime. Oz, a celebrity talk-show host turned…
Minority Rule Is Coming for Progressive Prosecutors
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm. If the Republican candidate wins the election for Attorney General, he’s threatened to take Chisholm’s prosecutorial power away. Ivan Moreno/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a cloudy day in September, Eric Toney, the Republican candidate for Wisconsin…