My Deeply Unsettling Return to the Moms for Liberty Conference
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last Friday morning, at the beginning of a hot June day in Philadelphia, I walked through a phalanx of about a hundred protesters in order to make my way to the Joyful Warriors Summit, the annual convention of the…
Anarcho-Tyranny: How the New Right Explains Itself
Rafa Goicoechea Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The same day Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Daniel Penny with manslaughter for choking to death Jordan Neely—a homeless man who’d been acting in a way Penny perceived as threatening—Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) recorded a podcast.…
More Than 1,500 US Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Serve as “Double Agents”
Mother Jones; Unsplash This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 1,500 lobbyists in the US are working on behalf of fossil-fuel companies while at the same time representing hundreds of liberal-run cities, universities, technology companies and environmental groups that say they are tackling the climate crisis,…
Why Has Joe Biden Just Rewarded a Guy Who Supported Murderous War Criminals?
Kamran Jebreili/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Why the hell did President Joe Biden nominate a one-time protector of war criminals to a top administration post? On the Monday before July 4—a black hole day for news—the White House let drop the word that…
Civil Rights Groups Challenge Harvard’s Legacy Admissions
Jose Luis Magana/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Three Massachusetts-based civil rights groups are challenging donor and legacy admissions at Harvard University, arguing that the practice gives an unfair boost to mostly white students whose family members are either alumni or wealthy donors. The…
For July 4th, Let’s Celebrate Great American Patriots: Government Bureaucrats
J. David Ake/AP. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a…