How Dr. Oz Boosted an Osteopath Who Became a Top Spreader of Covid Misinformation
Dr. Mehmet Oz and osteopathic physician Joseph Mercola.Mother Jones illustration; Eren Abdullahoglu/Depo Photos/Zuma; FX Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In February 2021, as the new vaccines that would tame the Covid pandemic were being released to the general public, an article sourced to an…
Matt DePerno Sought to Foreclose on His Clients’ Property. Now He Wants to Be Michigan’s Top Lawyer.
Mother Jones illustration; Jake May/The Flint Journal/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If Matthew DePerno wins his race to unseat Michigan’s Democratic attorney general in November, he’ll become the state’s top lawyer. He will have a staff of more than 500 people, and…
Inside Anti-Abortion Groups’ Campaign to Sell Women on Unreliable Birth Control “Alternatives”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.About five years ago, Kat decided to stop taking her birth control pills. She wanted to give her menstrual cycle a chance to return to normal before trying to get pregnant in the future—and anyway, she was beginning to…
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In May, during an Aspen Institute conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the audience, “I want the Republican Party to take back the party, take it back to where you were when you cared about a woman’s right to…
Trump’s Truth Social Is in Trouble
The TRUTH Social website on a mobile device with an image of former US president Donald Trump in the background.Jaap Arriens /Sipa via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Lately, Donald Trump has been screaming into the void. He is taking to his own…
The Most Powerful Moms in America Are the New Face of the Republican Party
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It is the first full day of the inaugural Moms for Liberty Joyful Warriors National Summit, and 500 such warriors are listening raptly as Florida governor Ron DeSantis delivers the keynote address. They fill tables in the grand ballroom…