It’s Official: The Democrats Held the Senate
Mother Jones; Gene J. Puskar/AP; Anna Moneymaker/Getty; Rod Lamkey/CNP/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.What’s been likely for days is now official: Democrats will hold the US Senate. Media outlets on Saturday night projected that Nevada Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto had narrowly won her…
Joe Kent Thought He Could See America’s Future. He Didn’t See Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Coming.
JT/STAR MAX/IPx/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.FiveThirtyEight’s final election forecast projected that Washington Republican congressional candidate Joe Kent would win by more than 12 points. Instead, in the biggest upset of the midterms, Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has carried the Republican-leaning district in…
Scenes of Joy Spread in Ukraine After Russia’s Withdrawal From Kherson
STR/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For nearly nine months, the people of Kherson, Ukraine, had been living under Russian occupation, with countless families forced to live without basic means including food, running water, and electricity. But after Russian troops suddenly announced a retreat from…
Is Tiffany Trump’s Wedding at Risk for a Full Meltdown?
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Tiffany Trump is so often forgotten among Donald Trump’s adult children. But for one brief Saturday, the former president’s 27-year-old daughter will be the focus of media and family attention as the Trumps gather in Mar-a-Lago for…
Ammon Bundy Led an Armed Standoff With the Government. 100,000 People Still Voted for Him.
Ammon Bundy speaks to a crowd in front of the Ada County Courthouse in downtown Boise. Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Of all the far-right extremists on the ballot Tuesday, perhaps none had the bona fides of Ammon Bundy.…
Illinois Is Poised to Pass a Huge Win For Workers
Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Illinois workers are on the verge of a historic win: a labor rights amendment to the state constitution that—among other things—would make the state the first to ban so-called “right-to-work laws” throughout its territory. The amendment, on the…