The New York Times Just Dropped a Shocking Investigation on Child Labor in America
Gregory Bull/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Cheerios. Fruit of the Loom. Cheetos. What do all these brands have in common? They’ve all relied on the exploited labor of migrant children, according to the New York Times‘ latest investigation. Journalist Hannah Dreier, who won…
Brazil’s Biggest Soap Opera Right Now? The George Santos Scandal.
Newly elected Republican Rep. George Santos Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The spiral of lies disseminated by newly elected Republican Rep. George Santos of New York has made him a political and social pariah and object of relentless scrutiny. Since the New York Times’…
New York Teams Up With the Feds to Sue Subprime Auto King
Screen grab from “the Don Foss Story”YouTube Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If billionaire Don Foss were still alive, he’d have a big problem on his hands. On Wednesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a joint…
The George Santos Apology Tour for Lying Doesn’t Explain the Biggest Mystery of All
New York Congressman-Elect George Santos speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) Annual Leadership Meeting at the Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 19, 2022.George Becker for the Washington Post Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.GOP Congressman-Elect George Santos flipped control…
Dem Dysfunction, Tabloid Hellscapes, Crime: How New York Almost Went Red
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A month or so before the election, the New York Post‘s sensationalism remained wide-ranging. The old saying “If it bleeds it ledes” was still true on many days. Headlines warned of the dystopian (“Blade Runner”) and the apocalyptic (“Holy Hell”), or…
How the New York State Democratic Party Lost Its Grassroots—and Then the US House
Jay Jacobs, the New York State Democratic Party chair.Lev Radin/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It was two weeks before the New York statewide June primary, when Erica Vladimer realized a powerful member of her own party was working against her. Vladimer was campaigning to…