Taylor Swift’s Super Bowl Jet-Setting Highlights Carbon Removal Problems
This private jet is thought to have taken Taylor Swift from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport to LAX on Saturday so she could make it to the Super Bowl.Eric Thayer/AP This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. To get to the Super Bowl on time, Taylor Swift took a…
Are We All Just Completely OK With a Nikki Haley Presidency Now?
Artie Walker Jr./AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley, who in the latest polls trails Donald Trump by double digits, got a bizarre helping hand from SNL on Saturday night, when she appeared as a special surprise guest during the show’s cold…
We’re in an Epidemic of Right-Wing Terror. Won’t Someone Tell the Press?
In These Times/Shutterstock Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This article first appeared in InTheseTimes magazine’s special issue on the spread of the far Right. “Violence is a part of America’s culture,” the Black Power militant H. Rap Brown once said. ”It is as American…
Is Matt Rife the Manosphere’s Next It Boy?
Charles Sykes/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Matt Rife ends his new comedy special, Natural Selection, with a literal mic drop. It’s a bold move considering the special, released on Netflix November 15, garnered almost immediate criticism for being misogynistic, ableist, racist, and generally unfunny. …
Piecing Together the Evidence: Open-Source Intelligence in Israel’s Gaza War
Mother Jones; Getty; Photo courtesy of Elliot Higgins Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Open one social media platform and you’re hit with a fake video; open another and you’re hit with bigotry. Open a news article, and you’ll find some victims “killed” but others “dying.” Each account of events in Israel…
“As if They Just Dropped Dead”: Navigating the Israel-Palestine War of Words
Mother Jones; Getty; Photo courtesy of Tamara Kharroub Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Open one social media platform and you’re hit with a fake video; open another and you’re hit with bigotry. Open a news article, and you’ll find some victims “killed” but others “dying.” Each account of events in Israel…