Monster of 2022: Brazilian Football Players and the Gold Steak
Mother Jones; Stu Moffat/Unsplash The day after the Brazilian national team beat Switzerland in the group stage of this year’s World Cup, a handful of players went out for dinner. The group included Arsenal’s Gabriel de Jesus and Real Madrid’s Vinícius Júnior. Ronaldo, Brazil’s former striker and a talismanic figure in football, attended. They chose to…
Monster of 2022: People Suing to Kill Student Debt Relief Because They’re Not Included
Mother Jones; Getty When the Biden administration announced in late summer that they would be cancelling $10,000 of student debt per borrower, Americans had thoughts. Some cried tears of joy on TikTok, others went off online with assorted criticisms: The administration should cancel more debt, or less debt, or tighten relief eligibility, or loosen it,…
Read the Entire Final Report from the January 6 Committee Here
Jim Lo Scalzo/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Nearly two years after a pro-Trump mob unleashed a violent attack against the US Capitol, the House committee investigating the events of January 6th has released its final report documenting former president Donald Trump’s lead role…
Cassidy Hutchinson Testifies That Former Trump Ethics Lawyer Told Her to Memory Hole Key Details in Name of “Protecting the President”
Cassidy Hutchinson testifying before the House January 6 committee on June 28, 2022. Tom Williams/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who offered dramatic testimony at a January 6 Committee hearing in June, detailed her own lawyer’s efforts…
Cassidy Hutchinson Testifies That Former Trump Ethics Lawyer Told Her To Memory Hole Key Details in Name of “Protecting the President.”
Cassidy Hutchinson testifying before the House January 6 committee on June 28, 2022. Tom Williams/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who offered dramatic testimony at a January 6 Committee hearing in June, detailed her own lawyer’s efforts…
Hero of 2022: Mike Davis, and Learning In Order to Act
Mother Jones; Wikimedia In March 2020 the writer, scholar, and activist Mike Davis—who passed away earlier this year from complications from Esophageal cancer—addressed the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, and what must be done to survive it, in an essay for Jacobin. It was titled “In a Plague Year.” As usual, he was prescient. He…