The Far Right Has Finally Figured Out How to Hone Its Racist Attack on Kamala Harris
Mother Jones illustration; Kenny Holston/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. “You hear ‘DEI’ and you probably think of your job’s HR department,” explains Kat Abughazaleh. “But for your QAnon uncle, ‘DEI’ is an activation phrase to send the most unhinged memes in the…
Four Key Questions Still Loom Over the Trump Shooting
Trump speaks at the RNC in Milwaukee, July 18, 2024Mark Hertzberg/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. One certainty about the assassination attempt two weeks ago on former President Donald Trump is that rampant conspiracy theories about it will endure—probably forever. The fascination with…
Frackers Are Spraying Toxic Wastewater on Pennsylvania Roads Despite Seven-Year Ban
A Pennsylvania fracking site.Charles Mostoller / Zuma Press This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Siri Lawson and her husband live on a stamp of wooded, hilly land in Warren County, Pennsylvania, nestled in the state’s rural northwest corner. In the summer heat, cars traveling on the county’s dirt…
Trump Says He Has “Nothing to Do” With Project 2025. Here Are His Connections to It.
Mother Jones illustration; Xpb/Action Press/ZUMA; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Former President Donald Trump has spent much of this week freaking out about Project 2025, the initiative that produced the 900-page extremist right-wing guidebook for the next conservative administration. This weekend, at…
The GOP’s Secret Weapon for 2024? Bogus Lawsuits.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On March 19, Staci Lindberg, the elected clerk of Nevada’s Lyon County, was hit with some unsettling news: She was being sued for the first time in her life. The plaintiff? Her own political party. The Republican National Committee had…
J.D. Vance Endorsed Book That Calls Progressives “Unhumans” and Praises Jan. 6 Rioters
Julia Nikhinson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. During his acceptance speech at the Republican convention last week, Sen. J.D. Vance, the GOP vice presidential candidate, praised Donald Trump’s call for “unity.” But this year, Vance endorsed a new book co-written by a far-right…