Being Gay Shouldn’t Be a Crime, Pope Says
Andrew Medichini/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In an interview with the Associated Press, Pope Francis has become the first Roman Catholic pontiff to denounce laws that criminalize homosexuality. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” the 86-year-old pontiff told the AP on Tuesday. Laws that criminalize…
How Kevin McCarthy Became the Last “Young Gun” Standing
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the summer of 2011, as Washington deadlocked over the once routine task of raising the nation’s debt ceiling, Kevin McCarthy, then the House GOP whip, decided to mix things up. At a closed-door caucus meeting, the California Republican…
House Speaker Fight Shows Election Deniers Who Tried to Overthrow Democracy Still Control GOP
Scott Perry (R-Pa.) confers with Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) during Donald Trump’s first impeachment.Susan Walsh/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On the first day of the new Congress, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) delivered one of the nominating speeches for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who was…
Corporate America Condemned the January 6 Riot—Then Went Right Back to Funding Election Deniers
Mother Jones; Samuel Corum/Getty; Wikimedia Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Two years after President Donald Trump incited a mob to storm the US Capitol and halt the certification of the Electoral College results, the January 6 insurrection is still a live wire in American…
The Media Still Don’t Know How to Cover Trump’s Extremism
Mother Jones; zz/KGC-375/STAR MAX/IPx/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The day after Donald Trump, a former president and the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, called for the “termination” of provisions of the US Constitution governing elections and essentially demanded…
Was the Anti-Abortion Influence Campaign an Open Secret at the Supreme Court?
Eric Lee/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, the Reverend Robert Schenck testified before Congress about the anti-abortion influence campaign he ran targeting the Supreme Court, recounting the bombshell revelations that have clouded the highest court in scandal first reported in November by the…