Facing Environmental Discrimination? Read This Before Complaining to EPA.
A sign in protest of the recently built asphalt plant stands outside of St. Francis Prayer Center on Wednesday, June 6, 2023 in Flint, Michigan. Jenifer Veloso/Center for Public Integrity This story is published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a newsroom that investigates inequality. Is your neighborhood choked with pollution or facing…
The Far Right Has a New Big Lie: Claiming to Support Palestine
Mother Jones; Chip Somodevilla/Getty; Andrew Harnik/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Much of the MAGA right seems determined to exploit the Israel-Hamas war to drum up anti-Muslim sentiment and xenophobia. In a newsletter last week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed she was “swarmed…
In a New York Courtroom, Donald Trump Meets Michael Cohen
Former President Donald Trump talks to the media during a break of his civil business fraud trial on Tuesday.AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a contentious, crowded day in court, Michael Cohen—Donald Trump’s disgraced former attorney and fixer—took aim at his old…
Andrew Cuomo’s Former Right-Hand Woman Is Going After His Accusers
Mary Altaffer/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s former right-hand woman, Melissa DeRosa, is out with a new memoir today in which DeRosa, who served as secretary to the governor, doubles down on her former boss’s claims that he…
Former Trump Lawyer Jenna Ellis Joins Guilty Plea Parade in Georgia
Mother Jones; Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Jenna Ellis, a former lawyer for Donald Trump’s campaign, pleaded guilty Tuesday in the sprawling Georgia criminal prosecution surrounding Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Ellis is now the fourth defendant—and third attorney—to…
How the 47-Percent Video Drove Mitt Romney to Depression and Nearly Out of the 2012 Race
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During the 2012 presidential campaign, when I obtained and posted a secretly recorded video of GOP nominee Mitt Romney deriding 47 percent of Americans as shiftless freeloaders who don’t “take personal responsibility and care for their…