How Do Mother Jones Readers Feel About Biden’s Student Loan Relief? Their Answers Might Surprise You.
Bonnie Cash/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last week, President Biden finally unveiled his plan to cancel large portions of student debt—up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients and $10,000 for most others—fulfilling a key campaign promise to deliver relief for a generation saddled…
Forced Parenthood and Failing Safety Nets: This Is Life in Post-Roe America
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Melissa Kearse, a 38-year-old single mother of five, has never had an abortion. She never wanted one. “I come from a very religious background,” she explains, “where my-body-my-choice is not necessarily my body and my choice.” But in her…
National Anger Over the Removal of Abortion Rights Is Catching Up to the GOP
A poster of former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at a rally for abortion rights at the capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, in July Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this year, Democrats were preparing to kiss…
Trump’s Truth Social Is in Trouble
The TRUTH Social website on a mobile device with an image of former US president Donald Trump in the background.Jaap Arriens /Sipa via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Lately, Donald Trump has been screaming into the void. He is taking to his own…
Trump’s Lawyers Don’t Seem to Have Much of a Defense
he former president, pictured here attending a New Year’s Eve bash at his Mar-a-Lago complex in 2019, before he spirited reams of unsecured documents from the White House to the resort upon his ouster.Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump’s lawyers don’t…
Biden Makes Big Move to Protect Dreamers—But the Program Remains Under Threat
Los Angeles area DACA students and Dreamers walk out of school to march and rally. Ted Soqui/SIPA USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Biden administration took an important step this week to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama-era…