Can Congress Stop Louis DeJoy’s Plan to Buy a Fleet of Gas-Guzzling Trucks?
Tom Williams/Pool/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As postmaster general, Louis DeJoy has been mired in controversy. Appointed in May 2020 after making massive donations to Donald Trump, DeJoy has sought to implement a plan of austerity to the United States Postal…
Republicans Spent Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Hearing Obsessing Over a White Man
Ron Sachs/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Tuning into the first day of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic confirmation hearings, one name loomed large, at least for Republican senators: Brett Kavanaugh. Yes, lingering complaints about the 2018 hearings for Donald Trump’s second Supreme…
An Exodus From Ukraine: a Visual Diary
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Photographer Peter Turnley has recently traveled in and out of western Ukraine, documenting both the heartbreak and the inspiring moments of people in flight. The French American photographer has documented violent conflicts across the world for more…
With Little to Attack SCOTUS Nominee, Republicans Are Going Full Hypocrisy
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell with Ketanji Brown Jackson at the US Capitol on March 2, 2022Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.While you wouldn’t know it from the attacks Republicans are lobbing at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s…
Medical Debts Have Counted Against 43 Million Americans’ Credit Scores. That Is Finally About to Change.
Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Friday, the three credit reporting agencies announced a major change: They will wipe nearly 70 percent of medical debt from the credit reports of Americans. The move follows a report from the federal consumer watchdog earlier this…
Ukraine Faces Yet Another Bloody Weekend Under Assault From Russian Forces
An apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol this monthAnadolu Agency/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.More than three weeks after Russia began its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the war reached new bloody lows this weekend. On Friday, Russian leader Vladimir Putin emerged…