A Look Back at 2021 in Photos, If You Can Bear It
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Whatta year! Wooooo boy. Phew. Is it over yet? Here in the (very small, one-person) Mother Jones photo department, we naturally tend to think visually. As such, we rounded up a few dozen photos that stuck with…
Congress Agreed on Drastic Military Sexual Assault Reform. Then “Four Men Behind Closed Doors” Got Their Hands On It.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) during a December 8 press conference.Graeme Sloan/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Thirty years ago, at a raucous Las Vegas conference of Navy aviators, dozens of male military officers crowded into a dimly lit hotel hallway, where they…
I Was Sexually Harassed by a Co-worker. My Boss Let My Harasser Stay to “Keep an Eye” on Him.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In 2016, Kelley Smith was looking for a job when a former colleague connected her with Ed Damiano. A prominent professor and biomedical engineer at Boston University, Damiano co-founded a biotech company called Beta Bionics and he…
We Always Knew Conservative Justices Would Tear Roe Down. Today Proved It.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.There has long been an expectation that the Supreme Court may try to be a bit subtle as it works to unravel abortion rights—that Chief Justice John Roberts’ concern for his legacy, or…
Andrew Cuomo Has Been Charged With a Misdemeanor Sex Crime
Spencer Platt/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was charged with a misdemeanor sex crime on Thursday. The governor, who resigned in August after the state attorney general, Letitia James, released an explosive report finding he had sexually…
What Does It Mean to Call Someone a “Male Chauvinist Pig”?
Chris Piasick Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It would be hard to deny today that the male chauvinist pig is still alive and kicking, running amok in his own filth. The election of Donald Trump and his “grab ’em by the pussy”…