Why Is Joe Biden Keeping Trump’s Nuclear Expansion Plans in Place?
Michael Reynolds/Bloomberg/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.When Joe Biden was elected president, critics of nuclear proliferation had high hopes. Here was a president who had gone on record opposing wasteful spending on nuclear weapons, someone…
New Giuliani Tape Shows Key Witness Didn’t Testify Accurately in First Trump Impeachment
Kurt Volker testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on November 19, 2019.Douglas Christian/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The testimony of a key witness in Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial is under new scrutiny by the…
With Anti-Asian Attacks on the Rise, Democrats Need to Figure Out How to Talk About China
Pat Mazzera/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Roughly three months ago, Evanna Hu realized something had to change. For months, she and other Asian Americans working in the national security field had heard a startling number…
Democrats Have Veered to the Left on Israel Policy. Why Hasn’t Joe Biden Caught Up?
Debbie Hill/AFP/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Progressive activists were surprised when the Democratic Party platform was approved last August. The party’s policy planks were largely crafted based on recommendations from Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders’…
The Progressive Backlash to Biden’s Foreign Policy Has Only Just Begun
Thousands of activists supporting Palestine converged in New York on Saturday, May 15, 2021. Kavin Hagen/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.When President Joe Biden told reporters last week that Israel, in the midst of a…
See Myanmar’s Crisis Through the Eyes of the Photographers Risking Their Lives to Bear Witness
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Civilians first took to the streets in Myanmar three months ago, after the Tatmadaw, as the country’s armed forces are known, seized power from the democratically elected National League for Democracy…