Fani Willis Appears to Fire Back at Rudy Giuliani’s “Ho” Attack
Mother Jones; Robin Rayne/ZUMA; Matt Rourke/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last Friday, my colleague Stephanie Mencimer had the distinct honor—or misfortune—of witnessing Rudy Giuliani’s apparent attempt to convince the Christian right to help him amid his dire financial troubles. That effort saw…
The Supreme Court Basically Legalizes Machine Guns
Mother Jones; Eric Lee/POOL/CNP/ZUMA; Charles Krupa/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In 2017, it took a shooter 10 minutes to spray more than 1,000 rounds into a crowd watching a Las Vegas concert. He murdered 58 people and injured 500 more in America’s…
Biden’s Border Closure Will Leave Migrants Vulnerable to Deadly Heat
Katie McTiernan/Anadolu/Getty/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With much of the southwest baking under record temperatures, immigrants’ rights advocates worry President Joe Biden’s decision to effectively close the border to asylum seekers for the foreseeable future will endanger lives and further marginalize climate-displaced people seeking refuge in the US.…
How We Uncovered the True Story of 40 Acres and a Mule
40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War. A year and a half later, almost all the land had been taken back. Read more here and listen to a three-part audio investigation here. The black-and-white images of smudged, crumpled slips of paper…
The Most Under-Covered Story of 2024: Trump and Right-Wing Extremism
Donald Trump shakes hands with Turning Point CEO Charlie Kirk at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit on July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Florida. Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP 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,…
The Supreme Court Just Unanimously Struck Down a Challenge to the Abortion Pill
Mother Jones; Olga Fedorova/SOPA/ZUMA; Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/ZUMA; Justin Rex/AP; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When far-right activists won their decades-long crusade to overturn Roe v. Wade, they likely expected that eradicating the constitutional right to an abortion would result in the…