How the Right Explains Trump’s Authoritarian Logic to Themselves
Steven Wilson Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last year, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unsealed a criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump for 34 counts of falsifying business records. To right-wing pundits, this amounted to a declaration of war—a “legal jihad,” in…
How We’ve Failed the Promise of Making “Genocide” a Crime
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Israel declared its independence in 1948. That same year, the United Nations adopted the convention that defined genocide as a crime. The tension between these two “never agains” was there from the start. The word “genocide” was coined in…
“The Algorithm” Does Not Exist
Giovanni Medalla Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2009, when Facebook changed its newsfeed significantly for the first time, there wasn’t much uproar over “the algorithm.” Now we’re all talking about it—whatever “it” is. The algorithm and its ramifications have been the focus of…
The Mirage of “Middle Class”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In June, Democratic advisers began circulating the usual warning: The party needed to change its message. As the Washington Post explained, focus group testing had shown that the slogan of “‘economic fairness’ was a loser.” Instead, Democrats should talk…
Anarcho-Tyranny: How the New Right Explains Itself
Rafa Goicoechea Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The same day Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Daniel Penny with manslaughter for choking to death Jordan Neely—a homeless man who’d been acting in a way Penny perceived as threatening—Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) recorded a podcast.…
The Word That Makes Brutal Budgets Sound “Truly Evil”
Triboro Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The cuts have come even for the word itself. “Austerity” is a cornerstone of conservatism—a catch-all term for limiting government spending to promote capitalist growth—and yet the expression seems to have disappeared from deficit hawks’ speeches. “I call…
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