Lara Trump Is All About Meritocracy
Lara Trump speaks at the NCGOP state convention in front of former US President Donald Trump on June 5, 2021 in Greenville, North Carolina.Melissa Sue Gerrits/Stringer/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Before she married Eric and became a Trump, Lara Trump was a dabbler.…
Henry Ford Perfected the Mass Production of Cars—and Antisemitism
Keystone/Getty; Wikipedia Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Henry Ford may be known for revolutionizing the automobile industry, but there’s another thing he mass produced: antisemitism. That’s one thing my colleague Dan Schulman explains in his new book, The Money Kings: The Epic Story of…
We Don’t Have to Guess What MLK Thought About the Israel-Palestine Conflict
This June 1966 photo shows thousands of civil rights demonstrators joining Martin Luther King Jr. on the last leg of the Mississippi March. The following summer, the Six-Day War would scuttle King’s plans to visit Israel.Charles Kelly/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.People of…
Jamie Raskin Explains Why He Voted to Keep George Santos in Congress…For Now
Jose Luis Magana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday night, uber-liar George Santos faced the ultimate penalty for a member of Congress: expulsion. Several of his fellow New York Republicans, who have come to believe he’s bad news for the GOP, pushed a…
Stop Messaging Me, a Black Journalist, About White Irish “Slaves”
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.I create videos about race and history for a living, which results in being inundated with racist comments, dog-whistles, instances of historical revisionism or apologia, and other stupid stuff. Every time I broach the subject of…
Debunking Florida’s Argument That Slavery Could Benefit the Enslaved, in 120 Seconds
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In my latest video, I tackle the controversy surrounding Florida’s teaching standards. These new guidelines, approved last month, sparked an avalanche of criticism by suggesting that enslaved Americans “developed skills which, in some instances, could be…