Is the Two-State Solution Dead?
A group of Palestinian refugees walking along a road from Jerusalem to Lebanon, carrying their children and belongings with them in 1948.Jim Pringle/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a 2019 article for Foreign Affairs, Yousef Munayyer declared the two-state solution dead. Munayyer, a…
If It Can Happen to Me, It Can Happen to You: The World According to “Police State”
Mother Jones illustration; John Marshall Mantel/Zuma/; D’Souza Media Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This week’s release of Police State was especially well-timed. The new pseudo-documentary film by conspiracy theorist and far-right influencer Dinesh D’Souza opened in theaters this week just as Jenna Ellis, one…
The Most Powerful Man in the House Doesn’t Like Divorce
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Newly minted Speaker of the House Mike Johnson thinks it’s too easy to get divorced, and he’d like to change that. “In my generation, all we’ve ever known is the no-fault scheme, and any deviation from that…
Pregnant Gazans Are Miscarrying and Struggling to Access Care
Palestinian women at Al-Aqsa hospital mourn relatives killed in an Israeli strike. Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Thousands of pregnant people in Gaza are being forced to forgo necessary medical care, and some are miscarrying as a result of living in a…
Mike Johnson’s Long Flirtation With Christian Nationalism
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Bruce Parker remembers a time when he used to talk to the new Republican Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson, several times a week. It was the spring of 2015, just weeks before the Supreme…
Mike Johnson Hates America, But He Believes He Can Save It
Graeme Sloan/Sipa via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Mike Johnson, the new Republican speaker of the House, has a very dark view of America. He believes that the United States is “a completely amoral society” and that global “sinister” forces have a hold…