Biden Promised to Crack Down on Egypt’s Dictator. Why Is the President Still Sending Him Weapons?
Brendan Smialowski/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.This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Egyptian revolution that toppled the three-decade rule of Hosni Mubarak and ushered in a chaotic sequence of crackdowns, a brief period…
Biden Formally Calls the Mass Slaughter of Armenians a Genocide
Anna Moneymaker/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.President Joe Biden on Saturday formally recognized the 1915 massacre and systematic removal of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a “genocide,” a term that, for decades, the government of…
Businessman Convicted of Foreign Lobbying Crimes Paid for Secret Trump White House Mission to Qatar
Imaad Zuberi (left) leaves a federal courthouse with his attorney in Los Angeles on February 18, 2021.Brian Melley/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.In June 2017, two former US officials, John Allen, a retired US Marine…
“Dearest Beyonce”: Myanmar Activists Beg American Brands to Help Them End the Military Coup
Mother Jones illustration; 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.One evening in March, Nann, a 20-year-old medical student in eastern Myanmar, sat in bed with her phone and composed a Twitter message to Beyoncé. “Dearest @Beyonce,…
Progressives Are Already Pissed About Joe Biden’s Defense Budget
Michael Reynolds/EPA/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.Late Thursday night, several news outlets reported that the Biden administration plans to request $715 billion in Pentagon spending for the next fiscal year. Presidential budgets are a legally…
Why a Protest Leader in Myanmar Is Reluctantly Giving Up Nonviolence and Preparing for Combat
Anti-coup protesters flee military forces during a demonstration in Yangon.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.Desperate times breed desperate measures and often desperate challenges of faith. Late Monday night, I spoke by encrypted video with a…