Hero of 2022: Abortion Providers Who Refused to Quit
Mother Jones; Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/Getty Abortion is healthcare, and no law prohibiting it can eradicate its necessity. That hasn’t stopped Republican legislators from trying. Fifty-five abortion restrictions were enacted in 2022. Many of these laws target doctors and healthcare workers, threatening them with fines and jail time for providing necessary and wanted care. But…
Hero of 2022: The Gen-Z Voters Who Saved Us From Ourselves This November
Mother Jones; Giorgio Viera/AFP/Getty Lauren Nicks, a college student in Georgia, voted for the second time this year. Her vote was her voice, she says, and she was motivated enough to figure out the logistics of sending in an absentee ballot to her home state of New York. She was part of the massive youth voter…
Hate Leader Nick Fuentes Is Recruiting Incels
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The former president of the United States wanted his guests to be seen. His meeting with Ye, a.k.a. Kanye West, had already been postponed since the rapper’s antisemitic outbursts this fall had made him a public pariah. But two…
Monster of 2022: Video Assistant Referee
Mother Jones; Francois Nel/Getty Every few years, the world discovers anew a wonderful old document called the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, a 1944 booklet published at the direction of William J. Donovan, the head of what was then called the Office of Strategic Services and is now the CIA. Donovan’s memo detailed ways in which…
Scandal-Struck George Santos Just Revived the Firm That Netted Him Mystery Millions
John Locher/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Monday, the New York Times published an explosive story revealing that George Santos, a New York Republican elected last month to the House of Representatives, had made what appeared to be brazenly false statements about his…
Big Oil Conspired to Deceive the Public, Claims Climate Racketeering Lawsuit
View of a refinery.Getty Images This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The same racketeering legislation used to bring down mob bosses, motorcycle gangs, football executives and international fraudsters is to be tested against oil and coal companies who are accused of conspiring to deceive the…