Arizona Republicans Chose the Big Lie
Kari Lake, Republican candidate for Arizona governor, blows a kiss to supporters in Scottsdale on Tuesday.Ross D. Franklin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Arizona Republicans are building a big tent. Under it sit a Mormon fundamentalist, a former journalist who once voted for Barack…
Is the Democratic Party Proving Andrew Yang’s Point?
Andrew YangStephen Smith/Sipa via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Andrew Yang rolled out a revamped version of his Forward Party last week, it was met with widespread derision from center-left commentators. Much of that criticism was fair. There’s a good chance that…
Kansas Just Showed Us How to Win the Fight to Protect Abortion Rights
Tammy Ljungblad/The Kansas City Star via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For the first time since a five-member majority of the US Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion in late June, the future of abortion rights was on the…
Inside a Kansas Clinic Where the Battle Over Abortion Is Still Raging
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.By midmorning on an early October day in 2021, the parking lot is full at the Trust Women clinic in Wichita, Kansas. Cars have been pulling in steadily for hours under a slate sky, droplets from the unpredictable autumn…
Blake Masters, Disaster for Democracy, Wins Republican Nomination for Senate in Arizona
Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters has the support of billionaires Donald Trump and Peter Thiel.Mother Jones illustration; Mario Tama/Getty; Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Blake Masters, a far-right disciple of Silicon Valley titan Peter Thiel who has echoed the ideas of an…
Just When You Thought Biden’s Climate Agenda Might Have a Chance, Here Comes Kyrsten Sinema
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The most ambitious attempt yet to pass climate legislation in the US may have surprisingly won the crucial backing of a senator who owns a coal company. Now it faces a further, deeply ironic, obstacle—a lawmaker who…