The Rise of Vivek. The Return of Masters. The College Libertarians Won’t Go Away.
Cheney Orr/The Washington Post/Getty; Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The 2024 election cycle looks like it will feature not one, but two late-30s contrarians who got their start rapping about libertarianism on elite college campuses. The first is Vivek Ramaswamy,…
Replacing the “Old Relationship”: Rep. Greg Casar On a Historic Congressional Delegation’s Trip to Latin America
Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) recently joined a historic congressional delegation to Latin America. Bill Clark/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A progressive congressional delegation has just returned from a historic trip to Latin America, where they met with three recently elected left-wing administrations in…
Replacing the “Old Relationship”: Rep. Greg Casar On a Historic Congressional Delegation’s Trip to Latin America
Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) recently joined a historic congressional delegation to Latin America. Bill Clark/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A progressive congressional delegation has just returned from a historic trip to Latin America, where they met with three recently elected left-wing administrations in Brazil, Chile, and…
DeSantis’ New Insurance Law Could Make It Harder to Rebuild After Hurricane Idalia
Zach Bunkley, a 22-year-old charter captain, left, and maintenance worker Oscar Garcia, 52, inspect Hurricane Idalia damage to a rental cottage at the Sea Hag Marina on Wednesday, Aug 30, 2023, at the Steinhatchee River.Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Press/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that…
A Judge Just Halted Efforts to End Immigration Detention in New Jersey
Mother Jones; Aaron M. Sprecher/AP; Detention Watch Network Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Yanet Candelario could feel her body grow tense as she remembered some of her experiences during the 13 months she spent at the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey. A dual…
How the Right Retired “Negrophile”—and Substituted “Woke”
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On June 14, 1862, the New York Times published an editorial titled “The Mystery of Negrophilism.” The essay questioned the origins of white Americans’ “extraordinary interest in the negro” and called the “passion for the American…