New Evidence Suggests Trump DOJ Official Conspired With White House to Overturn 2020 Election
Depart of Justice official Jeffrey Clark speaks during a news conference on September 14, 2020.Susan Walsh/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Jeffrey Clark, an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department under Donald Trump, played a key role in Trump’s conspiracy to…
Twitter’s New Privacy Policy Is Making It Harder to Spread Warnings About Online Fascists
Stephanie Keith/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Tuesday, Twitter rolled out an update to its privacy policy that bans people from posting certain “images or videos of private individuals without their consent.” Many journalists and researchers immediately lambasted the new so-called “private…
The Democrats Have a Discipline Dilemma
Michael Brochstein/Sipa via AP Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.For 45 seconds, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) bit her lip, leveled her gaze, and held her cellphone steady before a pair of microphones as a hateful voicemail unfurled from its speaker. “We…
In Syria’s Endless War Health Workers Are Not Only Collateral Damage—They’re Targets
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Adapted from Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War by Leonard Rubenstein (Copyright 2021, Columbia University Press). Used by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved. In 1996, I started a…
Cancer Is the Leading Cause of “Death From Disease” in Children. Here’s Why.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This story is a collaboration between Public Health Watch and the Investigative Reporting Workshop. In April 2008, Jonathan Agin’s 27-month-old daughter, Alexis, was diagnosed with DIPG, a rare brain tumor. Agin, then a civil defense lawyer in Washington,…
The House Just Did Its Part to Avoid a Government Shutdown. Now GOP Senators Hold the Cards.
Tasos Katopodis/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Thursday afternoon, the House passed a bill temporarily funding the government through the middle of February. The 221–212 vote comes after several days of concern that Democrats and Republicans in Congress would be unable…