The Allegations Against One of Soccer’s Richest Clubs Tell the Story of the Sport’s Gilded Age
Martin Rickett/ PA Wire / ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ever since its acquisition 15 years ago by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, a powerful member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi, Manchester City Football Club has been the Future. City…
Senate Democrats Are Taking Companies to Task Over Invasive Workplace Surveillance
Ignatiev/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Whether you call it “tattleware,” “bossware,” or “surveillance capitalism,” Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) has had enough of exploitative workplace monitoring technologies. Late last week, Casey and a handful of other Senate Democrats introduced the Stop Spying Bosses Act, which would…
Relax, New Yorkers. Nobody’s Coming for Your Gas Stove.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On January 9, in an interview with Bloomberg, an agency commissioner at the US Consumer Product Safety Commission floated the idea of regulations, or a potential ban, on new gas stoves—citing the “hidden hazard” of…
Republicans Have Manufactured a Controversy Over the Chinese Spy Balloon
Larry Mayer/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A US military fighter jet shot down the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, but the Biden administration has a different kind of foe that has yet to be neutralized: attacks coming…
A New Poll Finds That Democrats Really Don’t Want Biden to Run Again
President Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic National Committee winter meeting on February 03, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As President Joe Biden prepares to launch his re-election campaign in the coming months, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll…
The Billionaire Koch Network Wants to Defeat Trump in 2024
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the New Hampshire Republican State Committee’s Annual Meeting on January 28, 2023 in Salem, New Hampshire. Scott Eisen/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Koch world is over Donald Trump. Americans for Prosperity Action, the group that spends millions…