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Chicago’s Mayor Owes His Career to Activism. How Will He Handle Demonstrators at the DNC?

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Shortly before Chicago’s 2023 mayoral election, Brandon Johnson appeared at a roundtable attended by the progressive activists and modern-day abolitionists powering his shoestring campaign.  Johnson’s political beginnings weren’t that different from those of the activists supporting his candidacy.…

The War on Drug Prices Is Just Getting Started

Prescription drugs at a Manhattan pharmacy in July.Spencer Platt/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Thursday, the Biden administration announced that it had negotiated down the cost of the 10 most costly drugs covered by Medicare in a landmark deal. Once the reduced…

National Black Farmers Group Says Supporting GOP Ticket Is “Off the Table” After JD Vance’s Attack

John Boyd, founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, said Sen. JD Vance’s comments about federal benefits for Black farmers were “disgraceful, deplorable, dumb, degrading, and disrespectful.”Courtesy John Boyd Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said a lot…

White House Strikes Landmark Deal to Cut Drug Costs

Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Thursday, the Biden administration announced that—after months of negotiations—it had finally struck a deal with prescription drug companies to slash the prices of some of Medicare’s most expensive medications, prescriptions for which currently cost…