The Founder of Mother’s Day Mostly Cared About Her Own Mother
Mother Jones; AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It seems like such a simple idea: a day to honor the women who bring life into the world. But how do we square the ideal of celebrating and supporting mothers with the reality of…
A Nurse on the Scene Inside Rafah’s Last Maternity Hospital
Mother Jones; Getty; photo courtesy of Bridget Rochios Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At the last maternity and neonatal hospital in Rafah, the devastation has already arrived. “There is no safe place in Gaza from a healthcare perspective—and beyond,” Bridget Rochios, a certified nurse-midwife from…
Oklahoma Is Finally Trying to Cut Prison Time for Abused Moms
Kerry King and her kids during a visit at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center Mother Jones; Photo courtesy of King’s family Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their…
Kamala Harris Isn’t Letting Trump Dodge on Abortion
Kamala Harris speaks on reproductive freedom at El Rio Neighborhood Center in Tucson, Arizona, on April 12.Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Days after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a near-total ban on abortion could be enforced in the state, Kamala…
How Famine and Starvation Can Affect Generations to Come
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Famine is already happening in parts of Gaza, a top US humanitarian official publicly acknowledged this week for the first time. After six months of Israeli war and blockades, an estimated 2.2 million people are facing…
Uganda Cited Dobbs in an Anti-LGBTQ Crackdown. Americans Should Worry Too.
Human rights activists stand outside the constitutional court in Kampala, Uganda.Hajarah Nalwadda/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The ripple effects of Dobbs continue to emerge in unexpected places—and to threaten other civil liberties. Yesterday, Uganda’s constitutional court, the country’s second-highest judicial body, cited the…