Biden Gives Relief to Undocumented Spouses of US Citizens
President Joe Biden gives remarks on the southern border. Aaron Schwartz/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced another major immigration executive action. This time it wasn’t a border crackdown, but a new policy to offer legal status…
If You Want to Understand Trump’s Appeal, Look at John Gotti
Mother Jones; Jim Bourg/Pool/AP, Daniel Sheehan/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When people talk about the most consequential elections of their lifetimes, you don’t hear many of them mention Bill Clinton’s race against Ross Perot and President George H.W. Bush in 1992. In…
Conservative Media Conglomerate Amplifies Misleading Attacks on Biden’s Fitness
Trump’s victory, former Sinclair CEO David Smith told an audience the day after the 2016 election, was “a really serious opportunity to seek complete deregulation” of broadcasting. Steve Ruark/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was originally published on Judd Legum’s Substack, Popular…
A New Biden Ad Is Highlighting Trump’s Criminal Conviction
In a new ad, the Biden campaign is taking direct aim at Trump’s history-making status as a convicted criminal.Laura Brett/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In a new advertisement, President Joe Biden is highlighting the fact that his GOP opponent for the presidency…
Christian Nationalists Are Opening Private Schools. Taxpayers Are Funding Them.
Mother Jones; Chris English/Wikipedia; Olivier Douliery/Abaca/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Earlier this month, former President Donald Trump held his first campaign rally as a convicted felon at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, hosted by the arch-conservative student group Turning Point USA.…
Big Tech’s Energy Needs Are Growing So Fast That Power Grids Can’t Keep Up
Zuma Press This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Big Tech’s appetite for energy is just about visible from the east coast of Scotland. Some 12 miles out to sea sits a wind farm, where each of the 60 giant turbines has blades roughly the length of an…