New York City Is Underwater. There’s More Trouble in the Pipes.
A flooded street due to heavy rain in Hoboken, N.J., on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.Stefan Jeremiah/AP New York City is underwater. As heavy rainfall hits the northeast, making the city’s roads impassable and halting train and subway service, social media videos show flooding through holes in subway walls and water rushing into buses and cars—as well…
Trump Defrauded Lenders and Must Dissolve Businesses, Judge Rules
AP/Artie Walker Jr. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump committed massive fraud in the state of New York and must shutter his businesses there, a judge ruled Tuesday afternoon. The ruling—if it stands, a massive blow to the former president’s business empire, essentially…
Eric Adams Is Bringing the GOP’s Anti-Immigrant Crusade to New York
Students and parents protest migrants being housed at a school gymnasium.Luiz C. Ribeiro/NY Daily News/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On April 21, during a panel discussion with the mayors of the US four largest cities organized by the African American Mayors Association, New…
Trump’s Tedious Banquet of Lies and Self-Pity
Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.You used to be able to count on former President Donald Trump’s speeches being at least entertaining. But hours after his historic indictment in New York on charges related to hush money payments he allegedly made to an…
We Need More People Like George Santos in Congress
Patrick Semansky / Associated Prss Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.George Santos, the first-term Republican representative from New York, may go down as the most famous fabulist in the history of Congress. In the run-up to his election last year from a district that…
A MAGA Mogul Urged a “Flame Revolution.” After His Arrest, His Apartment Caught Fire.
The Sherry-Netherland Hotel, after a fire at the penthouse residence of Guo WenguiBebeto Matthews/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Hours after the arrest last week of fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui at his Upper East Side penthouse apartment in the tony Sherry-Netherland Hotel, a…