No. Ted Cruz Was Not Right About Russia’s Ukraine Invasion.
Ted Cruz at a March 2 press conference.Michael Brochstein/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Sen. Ted Cruz, who hopes one day to be president, would like Americans to believe that his policies could have saved Ukraine, if Democrats weren’t such weenies. Since…
She Escaped From Ukraine. Now She’s Haunted by Guilt About Those She Left Behind.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Olha Martynyuk had purchased a plane ticket to Switzerland for Wednesday, February 23. The 36-year-old professor of the history of science and technology at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute had long planned the three-week working vacation in Basel…
Biden Rallies Congress With a Furious Rebuke of Putin in His First State of the Union
President Biden forcefully denounced Vladimir Putin during his first State of the Union address, outlining further steps to damage the Russian economy and declaring that, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the European Union this week, “Light will win over darkness.” “Six days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the…
So Apparently Steve Bannon Loved the Piece I Wrote About His Absolute Obsession With China
Carolyn Kaster/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.A weird thing happened in the hours after I published a story about Steve Bannon’s podcast and its relentless anti-China crusade. He seemed to…really like it? On Gettr, the social media platform bankrolled by Bannon’s…
The World Is Less Unified in its Support of Ukraine Than You Might Think
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has pointedly refused to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Mother Jones illustration; Mikhail Metzel/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.If you went looking for evidence of international unity in the…
Steve Bannon’s Podcast Is the New Red Scare
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Peter Navarro is hopelessly devoted to Donald Trump, easily goaded into extended and semi-coherent monologues, and obsessed with the Chinese Communist Party. That makes the former Trump administration trade czar the perfect regular guest for War Room,…