“When There’s a Disaster, That’s When People Want to Know About Haiti”
The author with her parents and brother in 1989Nathalie Baptiste Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.One week ago, like everyone else in the world, I awoke to the news that Jovenel Moise, the president of Haiti, had been assassinated in his home.…
With Anti-Asian Attacks on the Rise, Democrats Need to Figure Out How to Talk About China
Pat Mazzera/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Roughly three months ago, Evanna Hu realized something had to change. For months, she and other Asian Americans working in the national security field had heard a startling number…
The Progressive Backlash to Biden’s Foreign Policy Has Only Just Begun
Thousands of activists supporting Palestine converged in New York on Saturday, May 15, 2021. Kavin Hagen/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.When President Joe Biden told reporters last week that Israel, in the midst of a…
Biden Promised to Crack Down on Egypt’s Dictator. Why Is the President Still Sending Him Weapons?
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Egyptian revolution that toppled the three-decade rule of Hosni Mubarak and ushered in a chaotic sequence of crackdowns, a brief period…
How a Koch-Backed Navy Vet Teamed up With the Antiwar Left to Urge Biden to Leave Afghanistan
Mother Jones illustration; ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Joe Biden is facing a looming deadline that could define the early foreign policy outlook for his young presidency. In less than two months, he must decide…
Can Joe Biden Fulfill His Promise to Diversify the State Department?
Saul Loeb/AFP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Days before Anthony Blinken was confirmed as Joe Biden’s secretary of State, his spokesperson told me that diversity, “at all levels, including senior leadership” would be a priority for the new…