An Academic’s Grand Unified Theory on Why Things Are Getting Worse
Mother Jones; Courtesy of Peter Turchin Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Pessimism is in. Swaths of the global elite are uncertain enough about the future to be fortifying their doomsday bunkers designed to evade both popular uprisings and climate catastrophe. “Billions must die,” a…
This Easter, “Egg Math” Is the Only Form of TikTok Math I’ll Endorse
Andy Lyons/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Happy Easter! I’m not a particularly religious adult, and I have no kids, so I signed up for weekend blogging duty this Sunday. That was a mistake. So far, it’s been an extraordinarily quiet news day. So,…
Republicans Are Suing to Block Another Biden Plan to Provide Student Debt Relief
Allison Bailey/Zumapress Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last summer, the Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s plan to wipe out more than $400 billion in student loans for about 40 million Americans. The plan would have canceled up to $10,000 in debt for…
No One Can Parody Donald Trump Better Than Himself
Last night, Saturday Night Live parodied Donald Trump’s effort to sell Bibles: The Easter-themed episode opens with “The Resurrection,” a story of three women, all named Mary, who visit the tomb of Jesus Christ to anoint his body. But when a boulder blocking the door to his grave rolls away, it’s not the son of God…
Traffic Blockade Protests Were a Nuisance. Lawmakers Want to Make Them a Felony.
Mother Jones illustration; imageSPACE/ZUMA; Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last November, Arizona Republican State Senator John Kavanagh was fuming in front of a television. Hundreds of miles away, more than 70 people had stopped their cars on the Bay Bridge between…
Donald Trump Stoops to Lowest Low Yet With Violent Post of Biden
Frank Franklin II/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump’s attacks on President Joe Biden have become familiar, but on Friday they reached a new level of terrifying. The former president posted a video on his Truth Social platform featuring a truck with an…