Radicals Took Over the Michigan GOP. Now They Can’t Stop Losing.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In early June, roughly 250 Michiganders filed into a windowless banquet hall for the Macomb County GOP’s annual Lincoln Dinner. The dining tables were decorated with white tablecloths, tiny American flags, and famous Lincoln quotes, while the silent auction…
The Hell of Providing Health Care in a Post-Dobbs America
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In her 32 years as an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist, Mary Norine Walsh has seen very sick patients and many deaths. “We’re not like orthopedists who only see one in their entire career,” says Walsh, a physician…
The Republican War on Alejandro Mayorkas—the Man With the Most Impossible Job in DC
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On March 28, 2023, after a little over two years as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas made his second appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee and received an onslaught of attacks by enraged GOP senators. “Secretary,…
Utah’s Suicide Pact With the Fossil Fuel Industry
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The GPS coordinates weren’t especially helpful last May as we drove across the remote Tavaputs Plateau in Utah’s Uinta Basin. Cell service was spotty in the vast expanse of land crosshatched with unpaved roads identified on the map only…
These Black Mothers Bet on Themselves and Transformed Las Vegas
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On March 20, 2023, Storming Caesars Palace, a documentary directed by Hazel Gurland-Pooler, premiered on PBS. It was based on the 2005 book Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, by Dartmouth history professor Annelise…
How MAGA Conspiracies Infected Autism Groups
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.By any measure, Stephanie Seneff is an accomplished scientist. A senior researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, she’s been a leader in the emerging field of computer response to human speech. After earning…