The DNC Kicked Off With a Handful of Protests—and a Dozen Arrests
Nate Gowdy for Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. As the 2024 Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday in Chicago, thousands of protestors took to the city’s streets to demand an end to Democratic politicians’ support for Israel’s war in Gaza, where…
Why It Took Seven Years to Get One Statistic About Guns
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It took seven long years to pry one staggering number from the hands of the federal government: that 52,529 weapons once owned by police were recovered at crime scenes across the country from 2006…
It Doesn’t Take a Conspiracy Theory to Explain Law Enforcement Incompetence
Nate Gowdy/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A notable trend over the last few years has been the Republican discovery of jail. I don’t just mean that a lot of Republicans have simply ended up there, although a number of them have.…
Columbia Just Triggered a Massive Campus Crackdown. Now the NYPD Will Stay for Weeks.
A phalanx of NYPD cops descended on Columbia University on Tuesday night and began clearing Hamilton Hall, the administration building that student protesters began occupying in the morning.Julius Motal/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Police cleared and arrested protesters occupying Hamilton Hall at Columbia…
Berkeley’s People’s Park Is a Metaphor That Has Outlived Its Use
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This essay was originally published on Dashka Slater’s Substack, A Sigh of Relief, which you can sign up for here. I was homeless when I started college at the University of California, Berkeley. First-year students weren’t guaranteed housing in…
Alabama Lawmakers Want Prison for False Reporting Charges. That Could Have Serious Consequences.
Molly Mendoza Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last year, 25-year-old Carlee Russell called 911 in Hoover, Alabama, reporting that there was a child on the interstate. Then Russell vanished, and no child was found. A massive search effort followed, along with a national media…