Will RFK Jr. and Other Third-Party Candidates Help Doom Democracy?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the summer of 2000, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the Democratic Party dynasty, took time out of his schedule as an environmental attorney to write an op-ed for the New York Times. In the piece, Kennedy…
Cartels, Hezbollah, Police Violence: How Big Tobacco Is Stoking Opposition to Menthol Cigarette Ban
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Halfway through the second Republican presidential debate, Fox Business aired an advertisement that made a jarring argument. President Joe Biden’s proposal to ban menthol cigarettes “will fuel an illicit market, lining the pockets of the Mexican cartels,” warned a…
No Labels Says It’s Not a Political Party. But It’s Setting Up State Parties.
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.No Labels, the self-professed centrist group that is preparing to possibly run its own presidential candidate in 2024, says it is not a political party. That means it does not have to reveal the donors that…
Top Democratic-Run Firms Won’t Discuss Their Work for No Labels
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Is No Labels becoming radioactive within the Democratic establishment? Two prominent Washington, DC-based consulting firms that are run by Democrats and have done significant work in recent years for the self-professed centrist outfit will now not…
More Than 1,500 US Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Serve as “Double Agents”
Mother Jones; Unsplash This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 1,500 lobbyists in the US are working on behalf of fossil-fuel companies while at the same time representing hundreds of liberal-run cities, universities, technology companies and environmental groups that say they are tackling the climate crisis,…
No Labels Exposed: Here’s a List of Donors Funding Its Effort To Disrupt the 2024 Race
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.No Labels, the political outfit preparing to run a “unity” ticket in 2024 that Democratic strategists and Never-Trump Republican operatives fear will siphon votes from President Joe Biden, is what’s known as a dark-money group. Unlike…