How a Koch-Backed Navy Vet Teamed up With the Antiwar Left to Urge Biden to Leave Afghanistan
Mother Jones illustration; 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.Joe Biden is facing a looming deadline that could define the early foreign policy outlook for his young presidency. In less than two months, he must decide…
Can Joe Biden Fulfill His Promise to Diversify the State Department?
Saul Loeb/AFP 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.Days before Anthony Blinken was confirmed as Joe Biden’s secretary of State, his spokesperson told me that diversity, “at all levels, including senior leadership” would be a priority for the new…
Trump’s State Department Had a “Humiliating” Lack of Diversity. Can Joe Biden Fix It?
Mother Jones illustration; Wikimedia CommonsOn Friday October 23, the State Department quietly decided to halt all “training programs related to diversity and inclusion.” For department employees, it was a fitting bookend to a presidential administration that has been hostile to the idea of diversity and uninterested in challenging the stereotype of US diplomats as “pale, male, and…
“Shocking, Horrendous, Disgraceful”: Foreign Leaders Are Lining Up to Condemn American Violence
Mother Jones illustration 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.On Wednesday, images of shocking violence and chaos perpetrated by President Donald Trump’s supporters—and instigated by the president himself—that interrupted the joint session of Congress meeting to certify…
Biden’s Pentagon Pick Has Deep Defense Industry Ties. Now It Could Complicate His Nomination.
Chip Somodevilla/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.Joe Biden, in defending his decision to nominate retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin as his Defense secretary pick on Tuesday, cited Austin’s “intimate knowledge of the Department of Defense…
After Trump Loosened the Rules of Engagement, Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan Rose by 95 Percent
Olivier Douliery/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.More than three years ago, President Donald Trump announced that he would “lift restrictions and expand authorities” for United States troops in Afghanistan—giving the military a freer hand to…