We Need More People Like George Santos in Congress
Patrick Semansky / Associated Prss Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.George Santos, the first-term Republican representative from New York, may go down as the most famous fabulist in the history of Congress. In the run-up to his election last year from a district that…
A MAGA Mogul Urged a “Flame Revolution.” After His Arrest, His Apartment Caught Fire.
The Sherry-Netherland Hotel, after a fire at the penthouse residence of Guo WenguiBebeto Matthews/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Hours after the arrest last week of fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui at his Upper East Side penthouse apartment in the tony Sherry-Netherland Hotel, a…
Scientists Deliver “Final Warning” on Climate: Act Now or It’s Too Late
Getty his story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),…
Ron DeSantis Really Wants to Remind You That Trump Allegedly Paid Off a Porn Star
Phil Sears/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Amid pressure to denounce a New York prosecutor who might soon indict Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis has finally decided to weigh in on the hush-money case swirling around the former president. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, DeSantis insisted,…
We’ve Got What It Takes to End Poverty in America
Unemployed men line up for free food in Chicago, circa 1931.Photo12/Universal Images Group/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Matthew Desmond, the 43-year-old Princeton sociologist whose last book, Evicted, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is back with another one, Poverty, by America,…
The Iraq Invasion 20 Years Later: It Was Indeed a Big Lie that Launched the Catastrophic War
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Before there was Donald Trump’s Big Lie, there was George W. Bush’s Big Lie. Twenty years ago this week, Bush and his sidekick Vice President Dick Cheney launched a war against Iraq. They greased the way to this tragic…