Biden’s Israel Politics Are Alienating a Critical Group: Young People Who Power Campaigns
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the throes of the pandemic, Darcy Pollard’s first full-time job was pulling long hours on the digital team of the Biden-Harris 2020 campaign. From her childhood bedroom in Maryland, Pollard monitored where on the web the campaign’s ads…
From Hairstylist to Jan. 6 Influencer: Meet the Man Helping the GOP Whitewash the Insurrection
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At the New Hampshire GOP leadership summit in October, former presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy made a bold promise. If elected, he would pardon participants in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol who he claimed were “targets of politicized…
America Promises Equality for Disabled Students. It’s Failing.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the United States, about one in six children have a developmental disability. Federal law guarantees them an equal education. But students, parents, teachers, and advocates say the system is broken. Animation by Janet Mac There are 7.2…
The Rise of the Abortion Cowboy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The doctor wants a pair of boots. Not just any boots, either. A specific brand of cowboy boot, handcrafted in Texas. Boots that adorn the feet of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, for instance, and singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton. We’re at…
What Does It Mean to Protect Children?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Campbell County Public Library is a handsome, low-slung building in the center of the small city of Gillette, Wyoming. Steps lead up to two sturdy stone columns that support an overhang, where patrons can sit on benches protected…
A Peter Thiel-Linked Startup Is Courting New York Scenesters and Plotting a Libertarian Paradise
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this summer, I showed up uninvited at a midtown Manhattan music venue, where a startup named the Praxis Society was holding an event as part of a weeklong series to promote its flagship product: a free-market Mediterranean city-state…