Alaska Just Elected Its First Native Representative
Peltola, 49, is Yup’ik, which is Alaska’s largest indigenous community.Mark Thiessen/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Representative-elect Mary Peltola just made history. With a 51-49 upset victory over ex-governor Sarah Palin, confirmed Wednesday by the state’s Division of Elections, Peltola has won Alaska’s sole…
Trump Stole Secret Government Documents. The Big Question Is Why.
Erin Schaff/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.We know what Donald Trump did: He absconded from the White House with classified and top secret documents that belonged to the US government; he mishandled these highly sensitive records in his Mar-a-Largo lair (see this photo);…
A Chaotic Glimpse of the Classified Documents Recovered at Mar-a-Lago
Most Americans are unfamiliar with the unique experience of hoarding classified documents. But thanks to Donald Trump’s apparent habit of doing exactly that, we now have photographic evidence of what that looks like—or at least how the former president did it at his Mar-a-Lago residence. The Justice Department, in a late-night filing on Tuesday, included…
Inside the Kafkaesque Process for Determining Who Gets Federal Disability Benefits
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Albert Diaz, then 41, took his seat in the Social Security Administration’s hearing room in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in October 2011, he had to lower himself onto his left buttock to avoid stabbing pain in his right leg. His…
Dog Whistle or Just Racist?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Republican strategist Lee Atwater is the godfather of the modern political dog whistle. He didn’t go around calling it that—I can’t actually find any evidence that he even used the term—but in a 1981 interview about how the GOP won…
The Police Are Defunding Minneapolis
Mother Jones illustration; Chris Tuite/ImageSPACE /MediaPunch /IPX/AP; Steijn Leijzer/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2020, the allocation of money within city budgets—and specifically the distribution of Minneapolis’ budget—became a national concern. The slogan was Defund The Police. The idea was to take some…