Left Out of Pat Robertson’s Obits: His Crazy, Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory
Pat Robertson during a presidential candidate forum at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 2015. Steve Helber/AP 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 time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but…
Sen. Thom Tillis Supported Same-Sex Marriage and Red Flag Laws. North Carolina’s GOP Censured Him.
Mariam Zuhaib/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.You know US politics have changed drastically when someone as conservative as North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis (R) gets censured by his own party for not being extreme enough. In 2007, as a member of the state…
Section of I-95 Collapses Near Philadelphia
/City of Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Bad news for drivers hitting the road this summer on the East Coast. On Sunday morning, a tanker fire beneath a Philadelphia overpass for I-95 caused a big section of the northbound…
Trump’s AG: “If Even Half of it Is True, He’s Toast”
Donald Trump and Bill Barr pictured on July 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. Oliver Contreras/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former attorney general Bill Barr said Sunday morning that he believed that Donald Trump is in real trouble with the latest indictment against him…
Reality Winner Has Something to Say About the Trump Indictment
Michael Holahan/AP; Yuri Gripas/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Reality Winner, the first person to be prosecuted in violation of the Espionage Act under the Trump administration, said she was “blown away” by the voluminous detail found in the 49-page indictment against the former…
Climate Deniers Are Hounding Educators Again
A girl works on an Earth Day project.Davide Zanin/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Carolyn McGrath thought she was ready for her testimony in front of the New Jersey Department of Education. An art teacher, she had dressed in a jaunty polka-dot blouse and chunky green necklace,…