Christopher Rufo Launched the Critical Race Theory Panic. He Isn’t Done.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a rainy day in late March, a group of American and European public intellectuals gathered in a stone-clad villa in Budapest’s Castle District. They’d been invited by the Danube Institute, a conservative think tank backed by the Hungarian…
Ron DeSantis Can’t Stop Smearing Asylum Seekers
Charlie Neibergall/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ron DeSantis is running for president as the man who took on two magical kingdoms. The first, as my colleague Pema Levy recently documented in a profile for the magazine, is Disney World. The second is Martha’s…
All Floridians Should Be Worried About DeSantis’ New Anti-Immigration Law
A migrant worker works on a farm land in Homestead, Florida. Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Guadalupe de la Cruz, director of the Florida chapter of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), wasn’t surprised when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed one of the…
Ron DeSantis Faces Three New Lawsuits After Signing New Voter Suppression Bill
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference in Miami on May 9, 2023. their campaign styles in Republicans’ leadoff voting state. Rebecca Blackwell/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Hours before announcing his 2024 campaign for the presidency on Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron…
Ron DeSantis Is All In—on Creating an American Autocracy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“Our government is a government of laws, not a government of men,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared last August, standing at a podium in Tampa with a phalanx of armed officers behind him. “That means that we govern ourselves…
Professor Association Blasts Florida’s “Unparalleled” Assault on Higher Education
Gov. Ron DeSantis talks during a press conference before signing legislation. Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis expected to announce he’s entering the 2024 presidential race in the evening, the American Association of…