Biden’s Beijing Olympics Boycott Is a Good Start. What Happens Next Is Even More Important.
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The Biden administration’s decision Monday to skip the Winter Olympics in Beijing, as part of a so-called “diplomatic boycott,” was historic—if a bit anti-climactic. The move had been telegraphed since November, when Biden publicly said…
Trump Continues to Glorify the January 6 Insurrection
Still image from a GB News interview with Trump, broadcast December 1, 2021. Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Soon, a year will have passed since thousands of enraged Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, many of them brutally attacking law enforcement agents,…
Stupid-Looking Statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest Comes Down in Nashville
Brent Moore/Flickr Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When I heard the news that the incredibly stupid-looking Nathan Bedford Forrest statue in Nashville, Tennessee, was finally taken down after two decades, I thought back to a moment in the John le Carré novel…
Donald Trump Suggests Georgia’s GOP Primary Will Be “Rigged”
Donald Trump campaigning with Brian Kemp in 2018, before their falling out.Daisuke Tomita/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Donald Trump is already stoking fears of election fraud in the Georgia governor race. This time, his baseless allegations are aimed squarely at a member…
How Is the US Actually Doing on Tracking Variants Like Omicron? We Asked Some Experts.
Mother Jones illustration; Ivan Yudin/TASS/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Back in February—a lifetime ago in pandemic time—I spoke with several experts who warned about the United States’ ability to sequence and track coronavirus variants. At the time, scientists in the United…
Foreclosures Are Fueling America’s Racial Wealth Gap
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This past June, to commemorate the massacre of hundreds of Black Americans and destruction of their thriving community by a white terrorist mob in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a century ago, the Biden administration promised…