There’s No Need to Feel Conflicted About Liz Cheney
Jae C. Hong/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.I’m hardly a sucker for Liz Cheney. She and father Dick led the United States into a strategically disastrous war in the Middle East on the basis of lies and misrepresentations. It was one of the…
Here’s the Whole Transcript of That Leaked Steve Bannon Tape, Annotated
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Halloween 2020 meeting in which Steve Bannon explained that Donald Trump planned to declare victory on election night, regardless of the actual results, was not supposed to be a big deal. The gathering was intended for Bannon to…
Liz Cheney Was Defeated By the Extremist Movement She Helped to Empower
Mother Jones illustration; Drew Angerer/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the run-up to the 2016 election, Liz Cheney issued a dire warning. The future of American democracy, and the nation’s place as a symbol of freedom to the world, was on the ballot.…
Rudy Giuliani’s Lawyer Knocks Georgia Prosecutors: “I Don’t Know What These People Are Doing.”
Matias J. Ocner/TNS via ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A district attorney in Georgia has informed Rudy Giuliani that he is a target of a criminal investigation into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to improperly influence the…
The January 6 Rudy Giuliani Mystery
A video of Rudy Giuliani is displayed on a screen at a hearing of House select committee investigating the January 6 riot.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Editor’s note: This column by David Corn first appeared in his newsletter, Our Land. But we wanted to make sure as many readers as possible have a chance to see it. Our Land is written by…
Here’s Why Jan. 6 Investigators Want to Get Their Hands on Alex Jones’ Phone
Briana Sanchez/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.An Austin, Texas, jury on Friday found that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook parents $45.2 million in punitive damages for broadcasting defamatory claims that the 2012 school massacre was a government plot—and that the…