To Understand JD Vance, You Need to Meet the “TheoBros”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On July 15, when former President Donald Trump first appeared at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, he brought along two new accessories. One was a large bandage covering his ear, which had been nicked by a would-be…
How Trump’s “Mass Deportation” Plan Would Ruin America
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. For our September+October issue, we investigated the Border Patrol’s sharp growth, its troubling record on civil liberties, its culture of impunity, and its role in shaping the current political moment—one that echoes the anti-immigrant fever that led to the agency’s creation a…
The Secret Plan to Strike Down US Gun Laws
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. For decades, McLean Bible Church has served as the place of worship for many of DC’s Republican elite. The sprawling evangelical megachurch…
It’s a Workers’ Party Now?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On the first night of the Republican National Convention, I settled into a seat in the upper levels of Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum to watch the most incongruous political address of my life. The speaker was Sean O’Brien, the…
Peter Singer Is Through With America
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In a Princeton University lecture hall one morning last December, Peter Singer, one of the world’s most influential—and controversial—living philosophers, offered his Philosophy 385 (“Practical Ethics”) students a brief overview of their upcoming final. The registrar, he noted,…
West Bank Midwives Are Facing a Maternal Health Crisis
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The car in front flashes its hazard lights, a signal to alert drivers that there is an Israeli military checkpoint ahead. Niveen Draghmeh sits up a little straighter, her medical ID clasped in her hand. Just a week…