As a Presidential Candidate, Cornel West Aligns Himself With Far-Left Radicals
Cornel West will appear at a forum on the war in Ukraine with Lee Camp and Claudia De La Cruz.Mother Jones illustration; Nancy Kaszerman/Zuma; Wikimedia (2) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Cornel West, the celebrity academic (formerly of Harvard and Princeton), fiery antiracism campaigner,…
No, Tim Scott: Cutting Taxes Won’t Fix America’s Child Care Crisis
Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Saturday isn’t just the deadline for Congress to fund the government. It’s also the day that the $24 billion pandemic-era program to prop up the nation’s struggling child care network comes to an end. The elimination of…
Republicans’ Immigration Proposals Are Shockingly Cruel
Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy during Wednesday’s Republican presidential primary debateMark J. Terrill/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During the second Republican presidential primary debate, Republicans wasted no time latching onto the issue of immigration—even when the moderators’ questions had little to do with…
There’s Nothing Pro-Labor About Trump’s Visit to Michigan
Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In early 2017, the Chamber of Commerce published the top 10 policies it wanted to see change under Donald Trump at the National Labor Relations Board. Trump’s appointees, along with the Supreme Court majority he…
What the New York City Migrant Crisis Is and Isn’t
Recently arrived migrants gather outside of the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It doesn’t take more than a couple of strolls around the block on East 45th Street in Midtown Manhattan for the faces of New…
Trump Defrauded Lenders and Must Dissolve Businesses, Judge Rules
AP/Artie Walker Jr. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump committed massive fraud in the state of New York and must shutter his businesses there, a judge ruled Tuesday afternoon. The ruling—if it stands, a massive blow to the former president’s business empire, essentially…