Steve Bannon Has a Lot to Say Before Going to Prison Monday
Steve Bannon speaks at the Turning Point USA ”People’s Convention,” in Detroit, MichiganDominic Gwinn/ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Donald Trump confidante and far-right agitator Steve Bannon talks for nearly four hours most days of the week on his show, War…
Polls Show Nearly Half of Democrats Believe Biden Should Drop Out
The first presidential debate between US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in the CNN studio in Atlanta. Artem Priakhin/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Over the past year, voters have consistently said that they believe…
“Things Are Moving So Quickly” as Scientists Study This “Very Scary” Climate Strategy
This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2006, a group of preeminent scientists met for a two-day conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to discuss cooling the Earth by injecting particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight into space. At some point,…
Why the Supreme Court Blew Up the Purdue Opioid Settlement
Signs in the shape of headstones, with information on people who died from using OxyContin, line a security fence outside the Supreme Court Monday, Dec. 4, 2023.Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that members of the…
The Government Broke Its Promise to Freed People. There’s a Price to Pay.
Andrea Levy (right) from Queens, New York, at a 2002 rally in DC for slavery reparations.Manny Ceneta/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Fourteen trillion dollars. That’s the total amount of money that the federal government owes to Black people in America for…
Supreme Court Limits Obstruction Charges Against January 6 Attackers
Mother Jones; Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Justice Department had improperly wielded a federal obstruction law in prosecuting hundreds of people for their roles in the January 6 attack on Congress.…