Anti-Vaxxers Have a New Obsession: Keeping Your Kids From Seeing Their Doctors
Mother Jones illustratoin; John Rudoff/Sipa/AP; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This week, activists in anti-science groups that I monitor are sharing memes suggesting that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its developmental milestones for babies and toddlers to account…
The Reason Sweden Isn’t Vaccinating Kids 5–11 Against Covid, Explained
Grace Molteni/Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.For some parents of school-age kids, it’s a relief: After two years with the coronavirus—of school closures, canceled playdates, time with extended family cut short—a vaccine has been approved for children. But…
The World’s Next Great Humanitarian Crisis Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes
People lie in the Kyiv subway, using it as a bomb shelter following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022.Zoya Shu/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine on Thursday portends a deep, destructive conflict that…
“This is a Dangerous Moment for All of Europe”: Biden Unveils “Crushing” Sanctions to Punish Russia
Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.President Joe Biden unveiled a new set of “crushing” economic penalties today, designed to attack vast tracts of the Russian economy for what he called President Vladimir Putin’s “flagrant violation of international law.” “We have purposely designed these…
Here’s How Trump’s Russia Hoax Led to Death and Destruction in Ukraine
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.For years, Donald Trump has incessantly railed against what he called “the Russia hoax” and denied Vladimir Putin’s attack on the United States. Yet the real Russia con was that very dismissal. And this fraud, perpetuated by Trump,…
How Fossil Fuels Play Into Putin’s Ukraine Strategy
Alexei Nikolsky/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. What is the relationship between Russia’s Ukraine actions and the gas price crisis? Gas prices are soaring globally, largely because of the resurgence of demand for fossil fuels after the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns, depleted storage and the difficulty of…