How the Right Retired “Negrophile”—and Substituted “Woke”
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On June 14, 1862, the New York Times published an editorial titled “The Mystery of Negrophilism.” The essay questioned the origins of white Americans’ “extraordinary interest in the negro” and called the “passion for the American…
Is Florida’s SAT Replacement Exam A) Christian Nationalism or B) Woke Propaganda?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In his crusade to stamp out progressivism in his home state, Florida Governor and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has made a particular obsession out of de-woke-ifying education: He has passed legislation that made it illegal for elementary school teachers…
Insurers Gave Ron DeSantis Millions. He Made It Harder to Sue Them.
Mother Jones; Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/Sipa USA/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. “We actually feared for our lives at one point,” he says. Their concern was surviving. He wasn’t worried about how they would fix their home. “’Thank God we’re insured. It will…
I Deeply Regret Ever Wishing a Millennial Would Run for President
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy raps at the end of a Fair-Side Chat with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds at the State Fair on Saturday.Jeff Roberson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.With the 80-year-old current president and the oft-indicted former president and GOP hopeful most likely to face…
In Another Sign of Florida’s Democratic Decay, DeSantis Suspends an Elected Prosecutor
Ron DeSantis campaigns in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on August 6.Charlie Neibergall/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a break from his ailing presidential campaign on Wednesday to suspend Monique Worrell, an Orlando-based elected prosecutor. The move was unsurprising: Since winning…
Ron DeSantis Defends Florida’s New Guidelines Suggesting Slavery Benefited Black People
Charlie Neibergall/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a Sunday interview with NBC News, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stood by a new provision in the state’s education guidelines that implied freed African-Americans benefited from chattel slavery, claiming it would teach students that enslaved…