Peter Singer Is Through With America
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In a Princeton University lecture hall one morning last December, Peter Singer, one of the world’s most influential—and controversial—living philosophers, offered his Philosophy 385 (“Practical Ethics”) students a brief overview of their upcoming final. The registrar, he noted,…
Republicans Preview the Voter Suppression Policies They’ll Enact if Trump Wins
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., holds a news conference with Donald Trump on April 12, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Wilfredo Lee/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In April, when he was at risk of being toppled by hardline…
The GOP’s “Softened” Abortion Platform Is A Ruse
Former President Trump has said he’d leave abortion rights “to the states” if re-elected—but the new draft Republican Party platform says the quiet part out loud. Gerald Herbert/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. If you read coverage of the Republican Party platform in…
Trump Again Demonizes Migrants for “Poisoning Our Country”
Trump visits the US-Mexico border in Texas on Feb. 29, 2024.Eric Gay/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Donald Trump called into Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Monday night, where the two talked about the biggest topic in political media: Joe Biden’s shockingly…
Biden Tells Congressional Democrats He’s Not Going Anywhere
Biden is staying defiant and refusing to drop out of the race for the presidency—despite growing calls from Congressional Democrats to do so.Kyle Mazza/SOPA/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. President Biden has a message for the growing number of Democrats raising concerns about…
Schiff, Murphy Express Alarm Over Biden: He Should Be “Mopping the Floor With Donald Trump”
The two top Democrats joined a growing list of party faithful going public with concerns over Biden’s candidacy.Ting Shen/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. As the crisis over President Biden’s candidacy following a disastrous debate performance extends into a second week, more top…