Erik Prince Is Charging $6,500 a Person to Evacuate Afghanistan on His Chartered Planes
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As scenes of chaos and desperation mount ahead of the fastly approaching August 31 deadline to evacuate US troops from Afghanistan, Erik Prince, the notorious Blackwater founder, has identified a golden opportunity to make some…
Denser Cities Could Help Curb Carbon Emissions, if the NIMBYs Allow It
Chuck Schug/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In San Francisco’s Sunset District, rows and rows of pastel-colored, two-story homes flow from the edge…
Proud Boys Leader Now Says He’s Not Proud of His Crimes
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio during a rally in Portland, Oregon, on September 26, 2020Allison Dinner/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Enrique Tarrio, the swaggering “chairman” of the violent far-right group known as the Proud Boys, says he’s no longer proud of…
He Was Just Trying to Study COVID Treatments. Ivermectin Zealots Sent Hate Mail Calling Him a Nazi.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When David Boulware read in 2020 that a cheap and plentiful drug called ivermectin had shown some promise in treating COVID-19, he was eager to study it. Vaccines were slowly being rolled out in the United States,…
They Beat the Odds to Win the US Visa Lottery. But Crippling Delays May Keep Them in Afghanistan.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last summer, Najma, a health care worker based in Kabul, had the most eventful week of her life: First, she narrowly survived a terrorist attack at the hospital where she works. Then, just days later, as she…
A Naturopath’s Advice for Reasoning With Vaccine Deniers
Abdullah Kilinc/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The pandemic hit home for Alan Christianson, a board-certified endocrinologist and naturopathic medicine practitioner based in Phoenix, a few weeks ago when he learned that one of his practice’s patients had died from COVID-19.…