Report From Russia: The Country’s “Special Military Operation” Is a Bloody Fiasco
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A version of this essay originally appeared in the London Review of Books. The “Special Military Operation” (the law forbids calling it anything else) got off to a bad start—Russian armed forces crossed into Ukraine and found themselves stuck…
Weeks After a School Shooting, Tennessee Lawmakers Ended Their Session Early Without Any Gun Reforms
Protesters in Nashville carry empty caskets to the Tennessee Capitol on April 17. Michael Nigro/Sipa USA via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Tennessee’s Republican lawmakers ended the legislative session early on Friday without taking action on gun control, less than a month after…
Dems Tell GOP to Stop Holding Americans’ Finances Hostage Over the Debt Ceiling
House Speaker Kevin McCarthyJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The fight over the nation’s debt limit has been brewing in Congress for months and is now ramping up. On Sunday, several Democratic lawmakers called on Republicans to stop using the cap as…
The Supreme Court Protects Access to the Abortion Pill Mifepristone—At Least for Now
Young tourists shout their opposition to anti-abortion activists from the plaza in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a major, if temporary, victory for abortion rights advocates, the Supreme Court on Friday granted the Biden administration’s…
What Is Gavrilo Princip Doing in Harlan Crow’s “Garden of Evil”?
Mother Jones; Thomas Brey/picture-alliance/dpa/AP; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Harlan Crow—the second-generation Texas billionaire who lavished Clarence Thomas with expensive getaways in the Adirondacks and Indonesia, purchased the Thomas family home, and let the Supreme Court justice’s mother continue to live there rent-free—has…
These Black Mothers Bet on Themselves and Transformed Las Vegas
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On March 20, 2023, Storming Caesars Palace, a documentary directed by Hazel Gurland-Pooler, premiered on PBS. It was based on the 2005 book Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, by Dartmouth history professor Annelise…