“A Shimmering Stunt”: The Problem With US Airdrops of Food Into Gaza
U.S. Army soldiers loads pallets of humanitarian aid in the cargo bay of a U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules aircraft. The food aid will be airdropped to Palestinian refugees trapped by the Israeli war against Hamas.Sra Lauren Jacoby/Us Airforce/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news…
Nikki Haley Suspends Campaign, Withholds Endorsing Florida Man Facing 91 Felony Counts
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley addresses supporters during a campaign stop in Beaufort, South Carolina.Jim Lo Scalzo/EFE/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.She’s…not running anymore. Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has dropped out of the GOP presidential race, ending her increasingly hopeless quest to…
Florida Man Facing 91 Criminal Counts Dominates Super Tuesday Primaries
Mother Jones illustration; Fulton County Sheriff’s Office Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump is coasting to victory in Super Tuesday primaries across the country—a decisive, if not unexpected, showing that follows his overwhelming wins in GOP nominating contests in states like Iowa, New…
Kyrsten Sinema Didn’t Fail, She Could Only Be Failed
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After switching her party affiliation from Democratic to independent in 2022, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema didn’t really act like someone who was planning on sticking around Washington for the long haul. Her fundraising stagnated and her…
Dartmouth Basketball Players Vote to Become the First Unionized College Sports Team
Richard Ulreich/CSM/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Dartmouth men’s basketball team voted 13-2 in favor of forming a union on Tuesday, in a move that could make them the first unionized group of college athletes. The players voted to join SEIU Local 560, which…
How the Biden Administration Kneecapped the Most Essential Aid Group in Gaza
Mother Jones; Yuri Gripas/Cnp/CNP/Zuma; Omar Ishaq/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In mid-January, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations’ agency responsible for Palestinian refugees—known as UNRWA—received the names of 12 employees who had allegedly participated in the October 7 attack by Hamas.…