The Next Political Battleground: State Supreme Court Races
Rally encouraging voters to vote yes on Amendment 2 in Kentucky.Stefani Reynolds / AFP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For decades as a Republican legislator in Kentucky, Joseph Fischer has pushed bills to restrict abortion. He sponsored the state’s 2019 “trigger law” making the procedure…
Bolsonaro—the “Trump of the Tropics”—Doesn’t Concede But He Doesn’t Contest the Election Results
Jair Bolsonaro speaks from his official residence of Alvorada Palace in Brasilia. Eraldo Peres/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After almost 48 hours of a deafening silence, Brazil’s defeated President Jair Bolsonaro addressed the nation in a brief speech that only served to cement…
The Supreme Court Wants to Move on From Racism Already
Protesters gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears two cases on affirmative action on Monday, October 31, 2022. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The conservative Supreme Court appears poised to ban the use of race in…
How One Group Is Tackling Voter Intimidation In Arizona
Paul Sancya/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Mari Alvarado, a retired public school teacher, has served as an election poll worker in Arizona’s Maricopa County for more than a decade, but she’s never experienced anything like she has in the last two years. “It…
Top GOP Secretary of State Candidates Hobnob with Extreme Conspiracy Theorists
Kristina Karamo, candidate for Michigan Secretary of State, Mark Finchem, candidate for Arizona Secretary of State and Jim Marchant, candidate for Nevada Secretary of State, attend an earlier conference on conspiracy theories and discredited claims about the 2020 presidential election at a hotel in West Palm Beach, Fla., in September. Jim Rassol/AP Fight disinformation: Sign…
World’s Nations Face Shrinking Odds of Taming Climate Mayhem
Ron Bailey/Getty Images This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It has been an alarming time for climate scientists. One by one, the grim scenarios they had outlined for the near future have been overtaken by events: extreme storms, droughts, floods and ice-sheet collapses whose sudden appearances have outstripped…