What’s Behind Trump’s Plan to “Restore American Beauty”?
Mother Jones; Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Zuma; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When I first skimmed through the Republican Party’s 2024 policy platform, a 16-page document titled “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!,” much of it read as Trumpian but unsurprising. The platform, which is sprinkled with…
J.D. Vance Says He Gets Bad Press Because Most Journalists Are “Childless Adults”
Intercollegiate Studies Institute/screenshot/YouTube Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. GOP vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance was slammed this week when a video of a 2021 Fox News appearance emerged in which he smeared Vice President Kamala Harris: He described her as being one of…
Four Key Questions Still Loom Over the Trump Shooting
Trump speaks at the RNC in Milwaukee, July 18, 2024Mark Hertzberg/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. One certainty about the assassination attempt two weeks ago on former President Donald Trump is that rampant conspiracy theories about it will endure—probably forever. The fascination with…
Trump Says He Has “Nothing to Do” With Project 2025. Here Are His Connections to It.
Mother Jones illustration; Xpb/Action Press/ZUMA; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Former President Donald Trump has spent much of this week freaking out about Project 2025, the initiative that produced the 900-page extremist right-wing guidebook for the next conservative administration. This weekend, at…
The GOP’s Secret Weapon for 2024? Bogus Lawsuits.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On March 19, Staci Lindberg, the elected clerk of Nevada’s Lyon County, was hit with some unsettling news: She was being sued for the first time in her life. The plaintiff? Her own political party. The Republican National Committee had…
Kamala Harris Is Running as the Prosecutor Taking on Trump
In the first official speech of her campaign for the presidency, Vice President Harris cut a stark contrast to former President Trump.Dominic Gwinn/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Vice President Kamala Harris’ days as a courtroom prosecutor are long behind her. But in…