GOP Attorneys General Have Launched a New Attack on Gender Care for Kids
More than 300 people gather in front of the Idaho Capitol to oppose anti-transgender legislation.Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last August, the American Academy of Pediatrics renewed its guidance supporting the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and other medical…
Rep. Ilhan Omar to Introduce Major Long Covid Bill
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Friday, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will introduce a potentially groundbreaking piece of federal legislation in the House of Representatives—one allocating $10 billion in funding to fight Long Covid, the increasingly widespread, chronic condition that…
Big Tech Would Be Key to Delivering Project 2025’s Anti-Abortion Plans
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. If Project 2025 becomes a reality under a second Trump term, there are several ways it plans to further restrict and surveil abortion access nationwide, including criminalizing the mailing of abortion pills and forcing states…
Two Dead Women Aren’t Enough for Republicans to Back Lifesaving Abortions
Senate Republicans blocked a resolution to guarantee emergency access to abortion nationwide.John Locher/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Two women who died in Georgia as a result of the state’s post-Dobbs abortion ban are, apparently, not enough to make Republicans agree that all…
One of the Only Hospitals in Gaza Just Reopened
Patients being evacuated from the European Hospital to be transferred to Nasser Hospital, two of the few health centers operating in the Gaza Strip. Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. After 50 days, Gaza European Hospital, one of the few trauma…
Report: America’s Overdose Deaths Are Falling
Nalaxone, better known by its brand name Narcan, can reverse opioid overdoes. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Drug overdose deaths have been on the rise for years, devastating communities nationwide. But as National Public Radio reported on Wednesday, that…