This Week Has Been Particularly Disastrous for Biden’s Mideast Policy
President Joe Biden meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office in July. (Susan Walsh/AP) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This February, President Joe Biden was eating an ice cream cone with Late Night host Seth Meyers in Manhattan when a…
Trump’s Electoral College Power Play in Nebraska Is a Troubling Sign of Things to Come
Tia Dufour/The White House/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden was buoyed by victories in the “blue wall” states of the Upper Midwest, and a few narrow wins in the South and Southwest. But it was easy…
One of the Only Hospitals in Gaza Just Reopened
Patients being evacuated from the European Hospital to be transferred to Nasser Hospital, two of the few health centers operating in the Gaza Strip. Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. After 50 days, Gaza European Hospital, one of the few trauma…
After Bomb Threats, Springfield Mayor Gives Himself Emergency Powers
A church sign at House of Prayer near the First Haitian Church and community center in Springfield, Ohio, on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. Luis Andres Henao/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Public resources in Springfield, Ohio, were strained long before former President Donald…
MAGA Republicans Pass New Election Rules in Georgia That Could Rig the State for Trump
An attendee holds a sign that says “This Meeting is Illegal” during a hastily planned Georgia State Election Board meeting at the Capitol in Atlanta on July 12, 2024.Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Less than two months before the election,…
Bernie Moreno Owed a Contractor $300K—Then Ignored Legal Rulings to Promptly Pay Up
Mother Jones illustration; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Before Bernie Moreno was the 2024 Ohio Republican candidate for Senate, he was the owner of numerous luxury car dealerships, hawking rarified brands like Aston Martin and Mercedes-Benz. To sell pretty…