The Feds Charged a Pro-Russian Pundit for Evading Sanctions. He Says They’re Trying to Silence Him.
Dimitri Simes at a news conference near Moscow in 2023.Vadim Savitsky/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Justice Department on Thursday charged Dimitri Simes, pro-Russian pundit and and former head of a Washington think tank, along with his wife, Anastasia Simes, with violating…
New Indictment Alleges Conservative Media Company Took Millions of Kremlin Cash
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday alleges that a Tennessee-based media company which played home to several prominent right-leaning online commentators was secretly a Russian government-backed influence operation. The company is accused of receiving nearly…
This Week From Reveal: Escaping Putin’s War Machine
Russian soldiers ride through Aleppo, 2017Christian Werner Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Are Russian military defectors spies? War criminals? Or heroes? That’s one of the central questions of this week’s episode of Reveal, which follows the dramatic journey of an officer who deserted the…
Wall Street Journal Marks One Year Since Evan Gershkovich’s Arrest in Russia
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, on April 18, 2023.Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Today marks one year since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was…
This Terrifying Book Is a Must-Read for Every World Leader
Mother Jones illustration; photo by Hilary Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Nuclear war is a topic few care to think about. We sometimes call it unthinkable. But we need to think carefully, and to talk—particularly with high-ranking foreign officials whose motives we may…
America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This article was adapted from Nuclear War: A Scenario, published March 26, 2024, by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright 2024 by Annie M. Jacobsen. Nuclear war is madness. Were…