Noisy NYC Anti-Vaccine Protests Are Hiding a Simple Fact
More than 26,000 of New York City’s municipal workers remained unvaccinated after Friday’s deadline. But the rates have surged in recent days.Seth Wenig/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Rowdy protests. Trash thrown at the Mayor’s mansion. Suspensions following threats to state Senate…
He Was a Board Member of the Oath Keepers. Now, He’s Holding State-Approved Trainings for Law Enforcement in Texas.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On a glorious Saturday morning in October, about 75 people are gathered inside an airy warehouse on the wooded grounds of Foam Works, a local insulation company on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The mostly white, middle-aged crowd sports Trump…
Cory Booker Reveals Where Things Went Wrong With Tim Scott on Police Reform
Tom Williams/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In an exclusive interview with Mother Jones, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) confirmed what many people, myself included, believe to be true: The bipartisan police reform bill fell apart because Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) was resistant…
Here’s Why the Bipartisan Police Reform Bill Was Always Going to Fail
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This week, two of only three Black US Senators threw in the towel on congressional police reform—a perfect embodiment of both government dysfunction and the lack of real commitment to systematically overhaul the way…
Vaccine Protests Prove the Only Personal Liberties Cops Care About Are Their Own
Julio Cortez/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.One of the biggest threats to public safety right now is the people who are charged with protecting it. As both the virus and the culture wars over how to end the pandemic rage, law…
McKayla Maroney’s Powerful Testimony to Congress Shows the Uphill Battle Survivors Face
Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Six years have passed since the FBI was first presented with evidence of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of young gymnasts during a July 2015 meeting between leaders of USA Gymnastics and the FBI’s Indianapolis field…