GOP-Dominated Pennsylvania Court Declares Mail-In Voting Unconstitutional
Chester County election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots for the 2020 general election.Matt Slocum/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.A Republican majority on a five-judge panel of Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court declared on Friday that the Keystone State’s widely used vote-by-mail system…
We Uncovered How Many Georgians Were Disenfranchised by GOP Voting Restrictions. It’s Staggering.
A voter drops a ballot off during early voting on October 19, 2020, in Athens, Georgia.John Bazemore/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.“States are not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared last year. Facts…
Biden Administration Revokes Mining Leases Near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters
A lake within Minnesota’s Boundary Waters.Getty Images This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A Chilean mining giant’s bid to construct a massive underground copper-nickel mine just a few miles from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has hit another major snag. On Wednesday, the Biden administration canceled a…
Ted Cruz Is Fundraising Off a Debunked 1/6 Conspiracy Theory
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In the spring of 2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) exploded when Donald Trump cited a baseless conspiracy theory that claimed Cruz’s Cuban-born father was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. At a…
These Doctors Wanted to Get Schools Back to Normal. Their Botched Effort May Backfire.
Mother Jones illustration; Kelly Sikkema/Unsplash Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.After two years of pandemic living, I am utterly exhausted by the idea of wading through another Twitter war about masks in schools. So it was with some trepidation that I began reading…
The Whole World Is Hating on Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill, January 2021.Jose Luis Magana/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Within the brutal machinations of US politics, Joe Manchin has been elevated to a status of supreme decision-maker, the man who could make or break Joe Biden’s presidency. Internationally, however,…