US Surgeon General Declares Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis
John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Tuesday, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a landmark advisory declaring gun violence a public health crisis in the United States and called for gun control measures to…
Most Immigrant Deaths in ICE Detention Could Have Been Prevented
Immigration detainees leave the cafeteria under the watch of guards. Gerald Herbert/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On June 15, Jhon Javier Benavides-Quintana, an Ecuadoran immigrant, died of undetermined causes in the Otero County Processing Center, a detention center in New Mexico. He…
You’re Not Too Good for Reality TV
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. For as long as reality television has existed, so have declarations predicting its swift demise. Cultural prognosticators have said that the genre, something consumed by the idiot masses, is ultimately a fleeting trend. But after nearly eight decades…
Will Congress’ Power Over Tax Policy Survive This Supreme Court?
Mother Jones; Engin Akyurt; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash (2) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In December, I published an interview with the tax policy expert and attorney Steve Rosenthal titled “The Supreme Court Case That Could Upend a Century of Tax Law.” Dropped last week,…
Here’s How Biden Could Rattle Trump in Their First Debate
Joe Biden and Donald Trump at the final debate of the 2020 electionYuri Gripas/Sipa via AP Images The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can…
Overturning Roe Didn’t Just Cut Off Access. It Sabotaged Science, Too.
Álvaro Bernis Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In early May 2022, reproductive health researcher Liz Mosley was at a dinner celebrating her first day as an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine when the news broke: A leaked draft…