Fort Bragg Becomes “Fort Liberty,” Ditching Its Confederate Namesake
A sign after a ceremony renaming Fort Bragg as Fort Liberty, near Fayetteville, North Carolina, on June 2, 2023. ALLISON JOYCE/AFP via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Fort Bragg, one of the largest military bases in the country, officially became Fort Liberty…
Christopher Rufo Launched the Critical Race Theory Panic. He Isn’t Done.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a rainy day in late March, a group of American and European public intellectuals gathered in a stone-clad villa in Budapest’s Castle District. They’d been invited by the Danube Institute, a conservative think tank backed by the Hungarian…
Ohio Staters Grapple With Bill That Stifles Climate Speech
State Sen. Jerry Cirino, the bill’s lead sponsor, on the Ohio Senate floor.Ohio Senate This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Keely Fisher chose to pursue her Ph.D. at Ohio State University because she wanted to learn about climate change from a world-class faculty. Now one…
Ron DeSantis Can’t Stop Smearing Asylum Seekers
Charlie Neibergall/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ron DeSantis is running for president as the man who took on two magical kingdoms. The first, as my colleague Pema Levy recently documented in a profile for the magazine, is Disney World. The second is Martha’s…
All Floridians Should Be Worried About DeSantis’ New Anti-Immigration Law
A migrant worker works on a farm land in Homestead, Florida. Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Guadalupe de la Cruz, director of the Florida chapter of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), wasn’t surprised when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed one of the…
Environmentalists Are Livid Over Tentative Debt-Ceiling Deal
A construction crew bores a tunnel for a section of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Roanoke County, Virginia.Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The deal to raise the US debt ceiling will have significant ramifications for the climate and nature, by fast-tracking a…