DeSantis Criticized for Not Being Anti-Abortion Enough
John Raoux/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In April, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a six-week abortion ban into law. Still, that is not enough to prove he’s truly committed to being an anti-abortion advocate. This week, in an interview with Megyn Kelly, DeSantis touted…
Atlanta Officials Push to Build Cop City Without a Public Vote
Alex Slitz/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last Thursday, a federal judge upheld the First Amendment rights of residents living outside of Atlanta to collect signatures to force a vote on whether or not to build an infamous training center that has become known as…
Big Business Is Fighting Efforts to Protect Workers From Heat
Jon G. Fuller/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Big-business lobbyists, including big agricultural and construction groups, are pushing to water down or stymie efforts at the federal and state levels to implement workplace heat protection standards. This summer, millions in the United States have been exposed…
Who Are Trump’s Alleged Co-Conspirators?
Clockwise from top left: Rudolph Giuliani, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman, Sidney Powell.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty (2); zz/KGC-375/STAR MAX/IPx/AP; Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty; Jae C. Hong/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One of the defenses Donald Trump preemptively offered ahead of his indictment…
The New Trump Indictment Will Supercharge His War on American Democracy
Mother Jones; Win McNamee/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Even after all these years of Donald Trump’s extremist attacks on American democracy and decency itself, the four-count criminal indictment handed down by a federal grand jury on Tuesday that accused the former president of…
Trump Indicted for Subverting American Democracy
Mother Jones; Alex Brandon/AP, Paul Sancya/AP, Jose Luis Magana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Justice Department has so far charged more than 1,000 people with crimes related to the January 6 attack on Congress. Now Donald Trump is one of them. On Tuesday…