Restore Roe, or Go Beyond It? The Question Is Fracturing the Abortion Rights Movement
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Not long after Election Day last November, Pamela Merritt joined a call with other abortion-rights activists in Missouri to discuss a daring proposal: sidestepping the state’s ruling Republicans by directly asking voters whether to add abortion rights to their…
Russian Military Continues to Kill Aid Workers in Ukraine
A Ukrainian soldier near Bakhmut, the site of fierce battles with the Russian military, on September 4. AP Photo/Libkos Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Russian military killed two foreign aid workers in eastern Ukraine this weekend and injured two more, launching a missile…
Morocco Death Toll Surpasses 2,100 After Worst Earthquake in a Century
A woman cries in the rubble in Moulay Brahim, Al Haouz province, Morocco. Fernando Sánchez/Europa Press/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In Morocco, rescuers continued rushing to reach survivors in remote mountain villages on Sunday, after the worst earthquake to…
How Bill Clinton’s Presidency Changed American Capitalism
Courtesy UCSB Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In their new book, A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism, historians Judith Stein and Nelson Lichtenstein chart how the 42nd president betrayed his progressive ideals—going from optimistic Democrat who triumphed over Reagan-era conservatism to the avatar of the…
Bill Clinton Campaigned as a Progressive. Why Didn’t He Govern Like One?
This piece is adapted from A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein. The book will be available from Princeton University Press on September 12. This excerpt is accompanied by an interview with one of the book’s authors. On December 14 and 15, 1992, the transition…
Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Was Convicted, Really Fast, of Contempt of Congress
Peter Navarro, who did not testify in his own defense, addressing press, and protestors, outside court on September 5.Jim Lo Scalzo/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump and many of his acolytes take the position that the words “executive privilege” are more or…