Republican Asa Hutchinson Announces 2024 Presidential Run
Robert F. Bukaty/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson announced Sunday that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. “I’m convinced that people want leaders that appeal to the best of America, and not simply appeal to our…
John Fetterman On His Struggle With Depression: “I Was Indifferent” Towards Living
Sen. John Fetterman speaks to CBS Sunday Morning shortly before hospital discharge for clinical depression.CBS Sunday Morning Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) entered Walter Reed Hospital for clinical depression in mid-February. Six weeks later, he returned home on Friday. In…
Twitter Strips the New York Times of Verification
Jonathan Raa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The New York Times boasts around 9.3 million global subscribers and 54.9 million followers on Twitter. But as of Sunday, America’s paper of record no longer has a verification check-mark on the increasingly tumultuous social media platform…
Sen. John Fetterman Is Going Back to Work
Francis Chung/Politico via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On February 16, John Fetterman, the first-term Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to receive treatment for depression. Fetterman, who defeated Republican Mehmet Oz in one of last…
President Biden Is Skipping King Charles’ Coronation. Good.
Then Prince Charles with President Joe Biden at the Cop26 summit in 2021.Jane Barlow/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The coronation next month of Kaiser Wilhelm’s and Tsar Nicholas II’s distant cousin, Charles Philip Arthur George, as King of England is a big event,…
Actually, Former Presidents Do Get Indicted—and Not Just in “Banana Republics”
France’s Nicolas Sarkozy (left) and Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, seen here in 2009, were two former premiers charged with and convicted of crimes.Soeren Stache/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Almost immediately after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that he had indicted ex-president Donald Trump,…