The New York Times Just Published an Exposé of CNN’s Leadership Drama
Mario Tama/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.CNN can’t catch a break. On Sunday, the New York Times published an investigation into the cable news giant’s leadership woes. It’s the second major article prying open CNN’s inner workings this week after the Atlantic published a…
Hours After SpaceX Postponed a Liftoff, Elon Musk Boosted a Transphobic Tweet
Win McNamee/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Just hours after Musk’s space flight company, SpaceX, delayed the launch of a cargo capsule on Saturday morning, the billionaire launched something else: a needlessly bad tweet. At 2:17 am Eastern on Saturday, SpaceX announced on Twitter…
Tennessee’s Ban on Drag Shows Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules
A bus at the Nashville Pride parade on June 25, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. Mickey Bernal/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A federal judge ruled late Friday that Tennessee’s law restricting drag shows is unconstitutional. The decision is a ray of sunshine during…
Biden Signs Debt Ceiling Deal, Averting Disaster
President Joe Biden addresses the nation on averting default and the Bipartisan Budget Agreement in the Oval Office on June 2, 2023 in Washington, DC. Jim Watson-Pool/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.President Joe Biden signed a debt ceiling deal on Saturday, averting…
Fort Bragg Becomes “Fort Liberty,” Ditching Its Confederate Namesake
A sign after a ceremony renaming Fort Bragg as Fort Liberty, near Fayetteville, North Carolina, on June 2, 2023. ALLISON JOYCE/AFP via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Fort Bragg, one of the largest military bases in the country, officially became Fort Liberty…
Christopher Rufo Launched the Critical Race Theory Panic. He Isn’t Done.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a rainy day in late March, a group of American and European public intellectuals gathered in a stone-clad villa in Budapest’s Castle District. They’d been invited by the Danube Institute, a conservative think tank backed by the Hungarian…