Parents Are Suing New York City Over Coercive, Traumatizing Home Searches
Mother Jones illustration; Getty; Bailey Torres/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In May 2021, investigators from New York City’s child protective services agency showed up at the home of Ebony Gould, a Black mother living in Queens. They were checking on the wellbeing of…
No Vaccine? No Problem! Florida Wants Your Unvaccinated Kids In School During a Measles Outbreak
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Amid an ongoing measles outbreak in Florida, public health officials are bending the rules of quarantine for unvaccinated children. At Manatee Bay Elementary School in Broward County, Florida, six children have tested positive for measles, a respiratory virus so…
SCOTUS Ducks High School Diversity in Admissions Case
Justice of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito attend a private ceremony Justice of the Supreme Court Sandra Day O’Connor before public repose in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023.Pool Via Cnp/CNP via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and…
Nikki Haley Refuses to Drop Out, Even as She Prepares to Lose South Carolina
She’s…still running.Jim Lo Scalzo/EFE/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Nikki Haley is…still running. Even if she’s almost certain to lose her home state. That’s essentially the summary of a speech the former South Carolina governor delivered Tuesday in Greenville, South Carolina, ahead of the…
RFK Jr. Super-PAC Puts Promoters of Conspiracy Theories on the Payroll
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A songwriter who produces rap songs with conspiracy theories about Covid; an academic who has championed debunked and bizarre notions about 9/11, the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, the 2020 election, and other public events; a polygraph examiner who…
At the UN, the US Vetoes a Ceasefire Resolution—and Proposes Another One
Two people run amid smoke in Rafah on February 19th, 2024.Hatem Ali/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After being the only member of the UN Security Council to twice veto resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, the Biden administration is preparing…