Monster: IIeana Ros-Lehtinen’s Lobbying Work
Mother Jones illustration; United States Congress/Wikipedia Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As usual, the staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. Find 2021’s heroes and monsters here. I recently got a nice Happy Holidays email from Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,…
Monster: The Myanmar Army That Murdered Civilians and Threatened My Friends
Mother Jones illustration; Santosh Krl/SOPA Images/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As usual, the staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. Find all of 2021’s heroes and monsters here. On February 1, families across Myanmar, already exhausted like the…
Biden’s Beijing Olympics Boycott Is a Good Start. What Happens Next Is Even More Important.
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The Biden administration’s decision Monday to skip the Winter Olympics in Beijing, as part of a so-called “diplomatic boycott,” was historic—if a bit anti-climactic. The move had been telegraphed since November, when Biden publicly said…
Democrats Are Still Trying to Figure Out How to Talk About Taiwan—and China
Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Cori Bush (Mo.), pictured here opposing the construction of an oil pipeline in Minnesota, are two Democrats who have met with the Taiwanese representative to the United States.Stephen Maturen/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When Taiwanese President…
Biden Is Taking Forever to Get His Ambassadors Confirmed. You Can Thank Ted Cruz for That.
Graeme Jennings/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Tuesday, the Senate approved four new US ambassadors, something that typically would not pass for breaking news in Washington, DC. But before this week, only 2 of Joe Biden’s 69 ambassador picks had been…
The Afghanistan War Is Over. But the Defense Budget Is Still About to Go Up.
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.After the United States military stopped fighting wars in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, Congress went on to appropriate less funding for defense in subsequent years. But now that the US has pulled out of Afghanistan, ending…