George Santos Just Hired the Only Man He Can Trust
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The role of “treasurer” on George Santos’ congressional campaign committee is not a job that just anyone can do. Nor is it a job that most people would necessarily want. So it makes some sense that…
Donald Trump Hasn’t Said Much About Daniel Penny. He Doesn’t Need To.
Phelan M. Ebenhack via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the weeks since a 24-year-old Long Island man named Daniel Penny killed Jordan Neely in a New York City subway car, the response from the Republican Party’s right wing has been as consistent…
House Republicans’ Work Requirements “Are Not About Work”
A volunteer at a mobile food pantry distribution site in Salt Lake City, Utah, last December. Rick Bowmer/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Princeton sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond’s latest book, the New York Times best-seller Poverty, By America, explores why poverty…
How Would Ron DeSantis “Make America Florida”?
Mother Jones illustration; Paul Hennessy/SOPA/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s hard to remember a time when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wasn’t acting like a man thirsting for the presidency. But after endless speculation and refusals to make his ambitions official, he’s expected finally to announce…
The Republican War on Alejandro Mayorkas—the Man With the Most Impossible Job in DC
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On March 28, 2023, after a little over two years as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas made his second appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee and received an onslaught of attacks by enraged GOP senators. “Secretary,…
Supreme Court Declines to Make It Easier to Sue Social Media Companies
Jose Hernandez and Beatriz Gonzalez, stepfather and mother of Nohemi Gonzalez, who died in a terrorist attack in Paris in 2015, arrive to speak to the press outside of the US Supreme Court following oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google.Drew Angerer/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow…