Florida’s New Anti-Immigration Law Is Jeopardizing Access to Health Care
Mother Jones; John Raoux/AP; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The patients at Juana Duran’s maternity clinic are terrified. Many are undocumented, and, according to Duran—an administrative staffer at the Florida facility—they are worried that a new law championed by Gov. Ron Desantis could…
How to Get Away With Murder
Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The easiest way to understand what LIV Golf wanted to be was first to look at what it actually was. LIV, which was founded in 2021 with funding from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment…
Legislatures Passed 550 Anti-Trans Bills So Far This Year
Janeen Jones, Center for Public Integrity; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story is published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative reporting newsroom. Hundreds of anti-transgender bills proposed in state legislatures are sold as measures to protect minors—such…
Being Gay Shouldn’t Be a Crime, Pope Says
Andrew Medichini/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In an interview with the Associated Press, Pope Francis has become the first Roman Catholic pontiff to denounce laws that criminalize homosexuality. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” the 86-year-old pontiff told the AP on Tuesday. Laws that criminalize…
“An Abyss of Fear and Wild Lawlessness”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Signs of the Russian presence linger everywhere in the recently liberated southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. In shops, vendors still sell “Crimea” brand lemonade, made in Russia. Hanging from billboards are exhortations that “Russians and Ukrainians are one people”—old-fashioned…
You Can’t Keep the World Out of the World Cup
Gregg Berhalter and Tyler Adams.Jia Haocheng/Xinhua via ZUMA Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The political subtext of the 2022 men’s World Cup in Qatar has never been particularly well hidden, because the politics is sort of the point. During every match of the…