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…
US Approves $20 Billion More in Weapons for Israel—as the Death Toll in Gaza Reaches 40,000
On August 14, activists held a rally demanding an arms embargo outside of a Kamala Harris campaign event in New York.Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It has been a little over three weeks since President Joe Biden stepped down from…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Falls for Online Misinformation “All the Time”
Lev Radin/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign hosted an online panel Wednesday on the future of AI moderated, for some reason, by Ian Carroll, a self-styled journalist with a history of antisemitic statements. In the…
Talking to a Former Madam About Using AI and Big Data to Help RFK Jr.
Kristin Davis after a court appearance in New York City in 2013.Louis Lanzano/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last week, a mini-scoop on Radar triggered titters within the political media world: The once notorious “Manhattan Madam,” who ran a high-end escort service in…
JD Vance’s Child-Voting “Experiment” Would Be Great—for Democrats
Mother Jones illustration; Emily Elconin/Getty; Getty(3) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Mormons would probably be psyched. The Republican Party less so. I’m talking about what would happen if we embraced the idea, proposed by Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance—isn’t he…
For LGBTQ Veterans, White House Pardons Still Fall Short
With rainbow lighting, the White House celebrates the Supreme Court’s 2015 equal marriage rulingMolly Riley/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was originally published by The War Horse and is republished here with permission. Andrew Espinosa was in his office in Boulder,…