Project 2025 Is Twisting Disability Rights Law to Attack Abortion
Gina M Randazzo/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s guidebook for Republican control of the presidency and Congress, is, unsurprisingly, coming for abortion rights. But in a new twist, they want to use a key disability rights law to…
AOC Wants to Impeach SCOTUS Justices Thomas and Alito
AOC is taking on SCOTUS.Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) wants justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas removed from the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, the congresswoman filed articles of impeachment against the two justices, alleging in a…
The Teamsters President Is Courting Trump—Despite His Anti-Labor Record
Mother Jones; Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/Sipa USA/AP; Mike Stewart/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Teamsters union general president Sean O’Brien is set to speak at the Republican National Convention next week—the culmination of several months of courting former president Donald Trump despite his anti-labor…
Biden’s Right: It Is an Orchestrated Attack
Mother Jones illustration; Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Amid a pivotal week for Joe Biden to demonstrate why he deserves to remain the Democratic nominee, the president is reportedly seething. And why wouldn’t he be? Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)…
A Right-Wing Mogul Is on Trial for a Massive Fraud Scheme. He Blames China.
Mother Jones illustration; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty; Richard B. Levine/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Lawyers for Guo Wengui—the exiled Chinese mogul on trial in New York for allegedly stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from investors in business ventures he launched—rested their case this…
Peter Singer Is Through With America
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In a Princeton University lecture hall one morning last December, Peter Singer, one of the world’s most influential—and controversial—living philosophers, offered his Philosophy 385 (“Practical Ethics”) students a brief overview of their upcoming final. The registrar, he noted,…