“They Can’t Kill Us All”: These Scholars Lost Their Countries and Found Each Other
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The doctor strides through Greenwich Village at rush hour on a December afternoon as if leaning into the wind. He is tall, lean, young—34—with longish wavy dark hair, charcoal eyebrows, a Roman nose. Carrying a raincoat and backpack, he…
Qatar Has Already Won the World Cup
Activists gathered in Berlin on November 19, 2022, to draw attention to human rights violations in Qatar. Michael Kuenne/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The first glimpse I got of what it will be like to watch this year’s men’s World Cup came during…
Interrogations, Electric Shocks, Detention—This Is What Russian Occupation of Ukraine Looks Like
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When the Soviet Union still existed, Anatolii Harahatii made his career as a photographer in the small village of Savintsi in northeastern Ukraine. Snapshots of him as a younger, sharply dressed man appear on many surfaces in the cozy, one-story…
Brazil’s Upcoming Presidential Elections Are the Most Hate-Filled in Recent Memory
Vendor’s towels for sale featuring Brazilian presidential candidates.Eraldo Peres/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Every other day, my WhatsApp bursts with messages from friends in Brazil and abroad expressing equal parts of excitement and apprehension as Sunday’s Brazilian presidential elections approach. On Wednesday, my…
An Iranian Journalist Who Reported on Mahsa Amini’s Death Is Now in Solitary Confinement
A photo of Mahsa Amini displayed at a protest in Berlin, GermanyMarkus Schreiber/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. An Iranian journalist who reported on the death of Mahsa Amini has been thrown into solitary confinement, with no information about the charges against her,…
UN Investigators Just Issued Their First Report on Russian War Crimes in Ukraine. It Is Horrific.
Investigators work to exhume bodies from a mass burial site in Ukraine.Pavel Nemecek/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, investigators working for the United Nations delivered a sobering statement to the UN Human Rights Council detailing evidence of Russian war crimes committed as…