US Finally Releases 75-Year-Old Guantanamo Bay Inmate
Tents used for overflow housing for Office of Military Commissions personnel at Camp Justice, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Alex Brandon/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Guantanamo Bay detention center isn’t anyone’s idea of an assisted living facility. But the controversial…
The Blob Delivers a Message: Shut Up About Ukraine
Congressional Progressive Caucus Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Chair, with Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) Mark Takano (D-Calif) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) in August. All four signed and later renounced the progressive letter on Ukraine.Graeme Sloan/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Amid the lingering freakout over the…
A Top DC Think Tank Took Millions From Foreign Governments. Now Lawmakers Want Answers.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, questions witnesses at a Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Senators in both parties are taking aim at the Brookings Institution, demanding details on funding agreements that, according to the lawmakers, could have…
Judge Rejects Trump’s Classification Tomfoolery: “You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It”
Could the phrase “TOP SECRET” in big red letters mean a document is classified? Hmm.Department of Justice/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump’s lawyers would like you to believe that the boxes the FBI seized from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate last month…
Report: US Intel Officials Believe Russia Secretly Backed Albanian Candidate
Lulzim Basha, the former leader of Leader of the Democratic Party of Albania, seen here in 2021, denies receiving secret funding from Russia.Visar Kryeziu/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Back in 2018, Mother Jones reported that payments made by a shell company to an…
It’s Been 21 Years and Politicians Still Say the Same Things About 9/11
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Twenty-one years ago today, hijackers directed two passenger airlines into the World Trade Center’s twin towers and another into Pentagon. A fourth flight, likely headed toward the US Capitol, crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. The series of…