Oklahoma Is Trying to Put Trump Bibles in the Classroom
AP Photo/Nati Harnik Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In June, Oklahoma’s Trump-supporting top school official, Ryan Walters, ordered the state’s schools to teach the Bible in class—and this week, his department put in a $3 million proposal to buy 55,000 Bibles for Oklahoma…
New University Rules Crack Down on Gaza Protests
Carnegie Mellon’s “expressive activity” policy forbids groups of more than 25 people from protesting on campus. This group of students, faculty, and alumni holding signs labeled “1” through “29” technically violates that policy. Jonathan Aldrich Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last school year’s…
Moms for Liberty Have Had a Rough Year. They’re Still RNC Darlings.
Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at Moms for Liberty’s town hall event at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. (Photo by Kiera Butler) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On the second day of the Republican National Convention, I made my way back to Milwaukee’s symphony…
“Things Are Moving So Quickly” as Scientists Study This “Very Scary” Climate Strategy
This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2006, a group of preeminent scientists met for a two-day conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to discuss cooling the Earth by injecting particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight into space. At some point,…
Why Bias Against Pro-Palestinian Protesters Matters for Everyone
Mother Jones; Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Thursday, committees at Stanford University published two reports on the campus climate following October 7. The publication comes just days after hundreds of pro-Palestinian students walked out in protest of the…
Christian Nationalists Are Opening Private Schools. Taxpayers Are Funding Them.
Mother Jones; Chris English/Wikipedia; Olivier Douliery/Abaca/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Earlier this month, former President Donald Trump held his first campaign rally as a convicted felon at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, hosted by the arch-conservative student group Turning Point USA.…