My Deeply Unsettling Return to the Moms for Liberty Conference
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last Friday morning, at the beginning of a hot June day in Philadelphia, I walked through a phalanx of about a hundred protesters in order to make my way to the Joyful Warriors Summit, the annual convention of the…
Meet the Rich Guys Who Want RFK Jr. to Be President
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his bid for the presidency at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel on April 19, 2023, he pledged to a cheering crowd to “end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is…
MAGA Groups Claim Schools Are Too Woke to Teach Reading Correctly
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ten years ago, Marilyn Muller began to suspect that her kindergarten daughter, Lauryn, was struggling with reading. Lauryn, a bright child, seemed mystified by the process of sounding out simple words. Still, the teachers at the top-rated Massachusetts public…
Christopher Rufo Launched the Critical Race Theory Panic. He Isn’t Done.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a rainy day in late March, a group of American and European public intellectuals gathered in a stone-clad villa in Budapest’s Castle District. They’d been invited by the Danube Institute, a conservative think tank backed by the Hungarian…
Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Isn’t Sorry for January 6. A Judge Gave Him 18 Years.
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, June 25, 2017.Susan Walsh/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The leader of the far-right Oath Keepers, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy last year, received an 18-year…
George Santos’ New “Mission”: Freeing an Accused Fraudster Who Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election
Mother Jones illustration; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty; Alex Wong/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Game recognizes game. And the far right scene in New York City is kind of a small world. So it’s weird, but not particularly surprising, that just days before being indicted on…