Ukrainian Refugees Are Being Embraced by Europe. Why Weren’t Syrians?
Women and children wait to board a bus heading to Przemysl after fleeing Ukraine.Visar Kryeziu/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On March 3, a Spanish TV station filmed several guards beating and kicking an African migrant as he climbed down a border…
The GOP’s Four Biggest Lies About Joe Biden and Fossil Fuels
Rep. Jim Jordan is among the Republican lawmakers trying to mislead the public about the Biden administration and its actions.Graeme Jennings/AP This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republican lawmakers and right-wing media have responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by waging a misinformation campaign about the Biden…
Democratic Senators Also Don’t Get Why Biden Is Still Using a Cruel Trump-Era Border Policy
Asylum seekers wait to be processed by border patrol, in Yuma, Arizona.Katie McTiernan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.More than a year has passed since President Biden decided to continue enforcing a Trump-era border closure policy that claimed…
GOP’s Madison Cawthorn Calls Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy a “Thug”
Rep. Madison CawthornTom Williams/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Eager to be on the right side of history as a brutal war drags on, Republicans in recent weeks have suddenly dropped the party’s steady embrace of Vladimir Putin. Even Tucker Carlson, who…
Missouri’s Proposed Anti-Abortion Law Has an Eerie Resemblance to the Fugitive Slave Act
Grace Molteni/Mother Jones Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.A Missouri lawmaker wants her state to follow in Texas’ footsteps and outlaw almost all abortions through the use of a citizen-enforced ban. But Republican Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman hopes to take the Texas…
Russia Has a Long, Cruel History of Attacking Hospitals. Maybe This Time Its Leaders Will Be Prosecuted.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Leonard Rubenstein is a professor of practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and core faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He is the author of Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to…