JD Vance Once Said “Some People Who Voted for Trump Were Racists”
Screenshot/UChicago IoP/YouTube Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In early February 2017, just as Donald Trump was settling into the White House, the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics snagged a special guest for an event: JD Vance. His bestselling book Hillbilly Elegy had…
Joe Arpaio Still Hasn’t Made Peace With His Own Demise
Mother Jones; Will Seberger/Zuma; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When former president Donald Trump appeared at Dream City church in Phoenix in early June, he was visited on stage by a ghost from his past. “Do you remember you had your sheriff,…
Biden’s Call for Supreme Court Reform Is Long Overdue
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. President Joe Biden called for a series of major reforms to the Supreme Court on Monday that would counteract the unchecked power of its conservative supermajority. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, which was…
Why a Kamala Harris Victory Could Prove Critical for the Health of the Planet
Harris speaks at the American Federation of Teachers convention in Houston, July 25, 2024.Jerome Hicks/ZUMA This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Vice President Kamala Harris all but locked up the Democratic presidential nomination last Sunday. It was also, incidentally, the single hottest day in this planet’s history. That inauspicious timing reveals…
Usha Vance Reportedly Loathed Trump
Usha Vance reportedly thought Trump’s role in inciting the insurrection at the Capitol was “deeply disturbing.”Glen Stubbe/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Believe it or not, Usha Vance once had a view in common with the majority of Americans: she reportedly…
Kamala Harris Raised $200 Million in Her First Week Campaigning
The Harris campaign is off to a strong start.Brian Cahn/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It’s hard to believe it was only a week ago that President Joe Biden announced he would no longer seek re-election and endorsed the candidacy of Vice President…