At the Center of the Right-Wing Revival? Hating Immigrants.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Five years ago, the first National Conservatism conference—a gathering on the right to propose a more populist version of conservatism—was held at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, DC. The event, organized by the then-nascent Edmund Burke Foundation, drew rising…
How Trump’s “Mass Deportation” Plan Would Ruin America
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. For our September+October issue, we investigated the Border Patrol’s sharp growth, its troubling record on civil liberties, its culture of impunity, and its role in shaping the current political moment—one that echoes the anti-immigrant fever that led to the agency’s creation a…
Elon Musk’s X Is Under Scrutiny for Disinformation Targeting Kamala Harris
Musk at a symposium on antisemitism in Krakow, Poland, Jan. 22, 2024Beata Zawrzel/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Elon Musk has said he wants X, formerly known as Twitter, to be the “public square” of the internet, an essential place for discourse and…
As the Voting Rights Act Nears 60, Conservative Judges Are Gutting It From Every Angle
Mother Jones; Washington Bureau/Getty; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash; National Archives Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. “Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield,” President Lyndon Johnson declared 59 years ago today, as he signed…
JD Vance Reiterates False Claim That Democrats “Tried to Kill” Trump
Vance introducing Trump at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Aug. 3, 2024Ben Gray/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Campaigning in Atlanta on Saturday, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance blamed Democrats without any evidence for the recent assassination attempt against Donald Trump. In…
Elon Musk’s X Is Spreading Deepfakes of Kamala Harris
Deepfakes of Vice President Kamala Harris are proliferating on X.Photo illustration; Rafael Henrique/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. For the second time in less than two weeks, a doctored video of Vice President Kamala Harris has spread widely on Elon Musk’s social media…