The Future of Abortion Is Up for Grabs in These States on Tuesday
Erin Lefevre/NurPhoto/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. States have the power to establish rights for their residents that surpass those guaranteed in the Constitution. California’s Proposition 1 and Vermont’s Proposal 5 would explicitly add abortion rights to their state constitutions—an additional safeguard where abortion access…
The Internet Is Full of Predators. Omegle Lets You Meet Them.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Content warning: This story contains descriptions of child sexual abuse. The two girls at the sleepover huddled together on the bed, passing the cell phone around. They took turns glancing at the screen, fascinated and unsettled by what they…
Abortion Is on the Ballot in Arizona. Only One Party Wants to Talk About It.
Arizona Republicans Blake Masters, Nancy Barto, and Kari Lake have expressed support for a complete ban on abortions in the state.Mother Jones illustration; Gage Skidmore/Zuma and Christopher Brown/Zuma (2) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When a draft of the Supreme Court ruling that would…
My School District’s Trans Sports Ban Is the Blueprint for Yours
Mother Jones illustration; Samuel Metz/AP, Larry Deklinski/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Oliver Wenditz, who goes by Ollie, catches me up on the goings-on at my old school in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Though we’re separated by close to 20 years, we adore the…
Polio? Measles? Florida Is Flirting With an Anti-Vaccine Apocalypse
Mother Jones illustration; Rebecca Blackwell/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Dr. Mobeen Rathore has spent the better part of his career trying to protect the children in his practice from contracting deadly diseases like measles, whooping cough, and polio. As chief of the…
Minority Rule Is Coming for Progressive Prosecutors
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm. If the Republican candidate wins the election for Attorney General, he’s threatened to take Chisholm’s prosecutorial power away. Ivan Moreno/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a cloudy day in September, Eric Toney, the Republican candidate for Wisconsin…