Why Trump’s Sleaziest Criminal Case Is So Important
Donald Trump appears at a Manhattan criminal court on February 15, 2024, for a hearing in his porn-star/hush-money case. Brendan McDermid/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the…
This Week’s Episode of Reveal: Journalism and Protest at the Dawn of AIDS
ACT UP demonstrates at the 25th Annual Gay and Lesbian Parade in 1994.Allan Tannenbaum/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This week’s episode of Reveal features WNYC’s Kai Wright and the Nation‘s Lizzy Ratner, hosts of New York Public Radio and the History Channel’s Blindspot: The…
Ohio Law Requires a Transgender Man to Use His Deadname on State Legislature Ballot
COLUMBUS, UNITED STATES – 2021/06/24: Cole Ramsey, 39, of South Linden holds a Transgender Pride Flag in front of the Ohio Statehouse to protest the passing of legislation against Trans Women playing sports in high school and college on June 24, 2021.Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother…
Shoebox Lady Is Not Alone—Americans Got Scammed for More Than $10 Billion in 2023
A cell phone screen warns of a potential scam call.Tolgart—Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Who among us has not handed $50,000 cash in a shoebox to a purported undercover CIA agent in an SUV with tinted windows because a fake FTC investigator…
Biden Blames Putin for Aleksei Navalny’s Death, Urges Ukraine Funding
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the reported death of Alexei Navalny from the Roosevelt Room of the White House on February 16, 2024 in Washington, DC. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At a televised White House press…
Onslaught of Raw Sewage Near US-Mexico Border Is a Public Health Crisis
April 16, 2021, Tijuana, Mexico.Raquel Natalicchio / ZUMA This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Raw sewage and runoff in the Tijuana River is exposing communities at the US-Mexico border to an unusual and noxious brew of pathogens and toxic chemicals, according to a report released this week.…