Nearly Three-Quarters of Americans Don’t Want President Biden to Run for Reelection
President Joe Biden speaks to the members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, D.C., US, on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022.Yuri Gripas/CNP via ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In response to…
UN Investigators Just Issued Their First Report on Russian War Crimes in Ukraine. It Is Horrific.
Investigators work to exhume bodies from a mass burial site in Ukraine.Pavel Nemecek/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, investigators working for the United Nations delivered a sobering statement to the UN Human Rights Council detailing evidence of Russian war crimes committed as…
An Arizona Judge Just Reinstated a 150-Year-Old Total Abortion Ban
Pro-choice supporters demonstrate at the Federal Courthouse in Tucson, AZ after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade in June 2022.Christopher Brown/ZUMA Press Wire/ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Before Arizona was even a state, its first territorial legislature enacted a total…
People Across America Are Choking on Wildfire Smoke
A haze of wildfire smoke obscures the afternoon sun in Oakland, California, September 8, 2020.Michael Mechanic Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Millions of Americans are now routinely exposed to…
Report: Prosecutors Recommend No Charges Against Matt Gaetz
AP/ Tom Williams Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Prosecutors at the Justice Department have recommended that Rep. Matt Gaetz not be charged in connection with a sex trafficking investigation, sources familiar with the case told the Washington Post. According to the paper, the federal prosecutors…
Ron DeSantis’ Cruel Vineyard Stunt Was Years in the Making
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during a press conference in Miami on September 22. Rebecca Blackwell/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a problem. For weeks the Republican governors of Texas and Arizona have been bussing and flying asylum-seekers to Democratic-run…