Former Trump Fixer Meets With Manhattan Prosecutors
AP Photo/Lawrence Neumeister Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Michael Cohen, the longtime fixer for Donald Trump, met with New York City prosecutors on Tuesday afternoon, signaling that those prosecutors may be gearing up for more criminal cases related to the former president. Cohen spent…
Why Ron DeSantis Won’t—or Shouldn’t—Run for President
Bumper stickers supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on sale at a Trump rally in Conroe, Texas, in January 2022. Jill Colvin/AP Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter is written by David twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories about politics and media; his unvarnished take on the…
The GOP Sent 61 Insane Emails Begging Me to Buy a $35 Membership
House Republicans, upon learning I had failed to renew my membership. “We are freakinggg out!” they shouted in unison.Andrew Harnik/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It started innocuously enough. A week after the election, I got an email from the National Republican Congressional Committee.…
House Republicans Want Visitor Logs for Biden’s House—But Not for Mar-a-Lago
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., talks to reporters on Thursday.Jose Luis Magana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.House Republicans are eager to investigate the mishandling of classified documents—some classified documents, anyway. On Sunday, James Comer, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, appeared…
Federal Judge Orders Bannon Ally to End Harassment Campaign Against Creditors
Members of Guo Wengui’s and Steve Bannon’s New Federal State of China at a 2020 protestAnthony Behar/Sipa USA/via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A federal bankruptcy judge slapped exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui with new restrictions this week after finding that Guo had defied an earlier…
The DNA of Deadly Pathogens Is Easy to Obtain
Nikolay Chekalin/Getty Images This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In November 2016, virologist David Evans traveled to Geneva for a meeting of a World Health Organization committee on smallpox research. The deadly virus had been declared eradicated 36 years earlier; the only known live samples of smallpox…