If Trump Denies Election Results Again, It Will Be Harder to Fight Back in Key States
Mike Stewart/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For all of the political handwringing about democracy being on the ballot in the 2024 presidential election, civic society experts have found that several states are actively eroding a key pillar of democracy that will undoubtedly come in…
Authoritarian Hungarian Prime Minister Meets With US Christian Right Leaders
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks at CPAC in Dallas, Aug. 4, 2022. LM Otero/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was in Washington DC on Thursday. But the controversial autocrat wasn’t making an official state visit. Indeed, President…
This Week’s Episode of Reveal: Catholic Hospitals Are Thwarting Access to Abortion—Even in Blue States
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Left-leaning states are trying to preserve access to abortion—but Catholic health care mergers often stand in the way. First, we travel with Reveal’s Nina Martin to New Mexico’s rural Otero County, where a recent hospital merger has upended the…
Let’s Not Take Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills for Granted
Bettmann/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last July, in a win for reproductive justice advocates, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill. This week, the progestin-only pill, Opill, shipped to retailers like CVS and Walgreens. It’s expected to be…
States and Tribes Scramble for a Colorado River Pact Before Election Day
The Colorado RiverRJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There are three main forces driving the conflict on the Colorado River. The first is an outdated legal system that guarantees more water to seven Western states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming—than…
Rupert Murdoch, 92, Is Engaged for the Second Time in 12 Months—This Time to a Woman He Met Through His Third Wife
Lewis Whyld/Associated Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When I tell people about our package on American oligarchy at Mother Jones, everyone wants to know about the yachts. As I wrote in an essay for the magazine, these gleaming vessels have come to symbolize both…