Andrew Cuomo Resigns as Governor After Explosive Sexual Harassment Report
AP/Mary Altaffer Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned on Tuesday after a damning, wide-ranging report issued by the state’s attorney general last week found that he sexually harassed multiple women, violating state and federal law. Cuomo said…
We Have the War on Terror to Thank for Donald Trump
Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Spencer Ackerman has had as interesting—and tempestuous—a relationship to national security reporting as anyone in the field. In his nearly two decades on the beat, Ackerman exposed Islamophobic training sessions at the FBI, won a…
The Logic of Corporate Accounting Took Over Our Language, and We Hardly Noticed
Huston Wilson Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Recently, while volunteering as a union organizer for freelance journalists, I spoke with a skeptical member. “Really, what is my ROI?” he asked. I tried to explain that the union is not a business. There…
In the End, Cuomo Goes Full Trump
Mother Jones illustration; Evan Vucci/AP; Mary Altaffer/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Tuesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James released a damning report detailing the results of a four-month investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against the state’s three-term governor, Andrew Cuomo.…
Myanmar Opposition Leader: We Need More Help From Biden to Defeat the Military Junta
Dr. Sasa is projected on a screen during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon on March 13, 2021.STR/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Dr. Sasa cannot tell me where he is located. On a Zoom call last week, he seems…
The Untold Story of Purdue Pharma’s Cozy Relationship With the American Medical Association
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The American Medical Association’s new training on pain management arrived in the midst of a burgeoning crisis. It was September 2007, and doctors were prescribing enough opioid painkillers each year for every American adult to have a…