Work Requirements for Federal Aid Programs Are a Bad Idea
Allison Dinner/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As the deadline to raise the national debt ceiling and avoid a default approaches, President Biden is reportedly considering a proposal from Republicans to require people who receive certain types of federal assistance to prove that they…
How John Durham Succeeded by Failing
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.John Durham succeeded. Not in the conventional sense. This special counsel, appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr and handed the task of proving Donald Trump’s claim that the FBI’s investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal had been…
Trump Wants Credit for All the Abortion Bans. He Also Doesn’t Have a Policy.
STAR MAX/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As we were all reminded during an especially horrendous town hall last week, Donald Trump is not a shy man. His thoughts, much like his policies, tend to flow unvarnished, regardless of how misogynistic, delusional, and contradictory…
A Massive Leak Spotlights the Extremism of an Anti-Trans Medical Group
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Michelle Cretella had a problem. In 2018, Cretella, then-president of the American College of Pediatricians, was speaking to the group’s board of directors about a reputation crisis she’d been trying to shake for years, ever since the Southern Poverty…
Montana GOP Just Passed an Aggressive Law to Thwart Climate Science
A helicopter crew battles a wildfire in northwestern Montana, August 2022. Don & Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Montana Republican lawmakers have passed legislation that bars state agencies from considering climate change when permitting large projects that require environmental…
With a Softball Interview of Trump, “The Messenger” Launches by Legitimizing Extremism
Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Democracy dies in the darkness—so goes the slogan of the Washington Post. It can also perish when authoritarianism is normalized with a thousand nicks. A new website called the Messenger demonstrates how such normalization is becoming ever more…