We Have the War on Terror to Thank for Donald Trump
Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Spencer Ackerman has had as interesting—and tempestuous—a relationship to national security reporting as anyone in the field. In his nearly two decades on the beat, Ackerman exposed Islamophobic training sessions at the FBI, won a…
The Anti-War Movement Still Wants Biden to Get Out of Afghanistan, Even if It Gets Messy
Pete Marovich/New York Times/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The US military withdrawal from Afghanistan is nearly complete, well ahead of the Biden administration’s September 11 deadline. That speedy approach, though, has led to bizarre moments of miscommunication with Afghan allies and…
Joe Biden Won’t Back Down on Afghanistan War Withdrawal Even as Taliban Violence Increases
Tom Brenner/Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When Joe Biden defended the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan on Thursday afternoon, he took care to note how “no nation has ever unified Afghanistan.” “Empires have gone there and not done it,” he said. …
Progressive Lawmakers Want Biden to Not Include Military Spending in Infrastructure Plan
Tasos Katopodis/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.On Friday morning, a group of progressive lawmakers publicly pushed against including military spending in the Biden administration’s compromise $579 billion infrastructure bill. In a letter to Speaker of the…
How are Biden’s Latest Airstrikes Not Just a War?
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.On a Friday in March, nearly 50 years ago, a young Joe Biden stood on the floor of the Senate and challenged the power of a president to unilaterally conduct…
Facebook Doesn’t Want to Talk About Fake Users Created by the Pentagon
Drew Angerer/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.On a press call a few years ago, I asked Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, if the company would treat a misinformation campaign orchestrated by the US…