Merrick Garland Should Tell Us if DOJ Is Investigating Trump for His Attempted Coup
Merrick Garland speaking at the Department of Justice in Washington on January 5, 2022.Carolyn Kaster/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Editor’s note: This essay by David Corn first appeared in his newsletter, Our Land. But we wanted to make sure as many readers as possible…
Trump Riffs About Provoking War Between China and Russia
Trump speaks during a meeting at the White House in 2019.Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Speaking to about 250 of the Republican Party’s richest donors at a posh riverfront resort in New Orleans on Saturday night, former…
Bannon, Milo, and Other Right-Wing Activists Are Hellbent on Transforming the Catholic Church
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.At around the fifth hour of November’s “Enough Is Enough” prayer rally, hosted by the Catholic right media outlet Church Militant, event emcee and fallen alt-right star Milo Yiannopoulos bounded onstage to reveal a dramatic wardrobe change.…
How We Let Ukraine—and the World—Down
Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack on the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, on February, 25.Emilio Morenatti/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Editor’s note: This essay by David Corn first appeared in his newsletter, Our Land. But we wanted to…
In 1871, Congress Crafted a Law to Break the Klan. Today, It’s Targeting Trump.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In the final week of the 2020 elections, a Biden campaign bus departed San Antonio on the last afternoon of a three-day Texas tour. The bus had already encountered intimidation and harassment from Trump supporters on the state’s…
Here’s How Trump’s Russia Hoax Led to Death and Destruction in Ukraine
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.For years, Donald Trump has incessantly railed against what he called “the Russia hoax” and denied Vladimir Putin’s attack on the United States. Yet the real Russia con was that very dismissal. And this fraud, perpetuated by Trump,…