Joe Biden Won’t Back Down on Afghanistan War Withdrawal Even as Taliban Violence Increases
Tom Brenner/Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When Joe Biden defended the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan on Thursday afternoon, he took care to note how “no nation has ever unified Afghanistan.” “Empires have gone there and not done it,” he said. …
Progressive Lawmakers Want Biden to Not Include Military Spending in Infrastructure Plan
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On Friday morning, a group of progressive lawmakers publicly pushed against including military spending in the Biden administration’s compromise $579 billion infrastructure bill. In a letter to Speaker of the…
How are Biden’s Latest Airstrikes Not Just a War?
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On a Friday in March, nearly 50 years ago, a young Joe Biden stood on the floor of the Senate and challenged the power of a president to unilaterally conduct…
The US Government Just Released Its Long-Awaited Report on UFOs. Read It Here.
A US Navy video of unidentified aerial phenomena.US Navy Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The US government released it’s long-awaited UFO report today, concluding that “if and when individual UAP incidents are resolved they will fall…
The House Voted to Finally Overturn the 2002 Iraq War Authorization
Doug Mills/New York Times/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Congress gave George W. Bush approval to invade Iraq in 2002 and, for the better part of two decades, lawmakers have shown little interest in repealing it,…
Why Is Joe Biden Keeping Trump’s Nuclear Expansion Plans in Place?
Michael Reynolds/Bloomberg/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.When Joe Biden was elected president, critics of nuclear proliferation had high hopes. Here was a president who had gone on record opposing wasteful spending on nuclear weapons, someone…