Here come the Russians, again: The director of national intelligence recently warned that Russia remains “the most active foreign threat to our elections" ( www.motherjones.com )
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Sen. Rick Scott Says He’s a China Hawk. But He’s Made Lots of Money With China-Related Investments. ( www.motherjones.com )
In November, ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) issued a press release casting himself as a fierce opponent of China. It declared, “Since being elected to the U.S. Senate, Senator Scott has introduced dozens of bills to punish Communist China for its increased...
Amazon is capable of reducing plastic waste in the US. So why isn’t It? - It has done so elsewhere—when forced, a new report shows. ( www.motherjones.com )
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In Alabama, abortion and IVF helped flip a red set in a special election ( www.motherjones.com )
Democrat Marilyn Lands won a special election for an Alabama state House seat, flipping a Republican-held seat by campaigning on abortion rights in the deep-red state that bans abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest. Lands won 62 percent of the nearly 6,000 votes cast, while her challenger, Republican Teddy Powell, won...
Can American labor seize the moment? ( www.motherjones.com )
Meet the operatives who profited from January 6: New evidence shows how political professionals made big money organizing the rallies that preceded the riot ( www.motherjones.com )
About 1,300 Americans have been charged with crimes for actions related to January 6. That includes Trump, whose false allegations of election fraud were the main cause of the attack. But the insurrection was made possible by another group of people—a web of political operatives who personally profited by helping to assemble...
Being Mean to Scabs Is Working ( www.motherjones.com )
Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher are now not resuming their shows amid strikes.
How right-wing groups are plotting to implement Trump's authoritarianism ( www.motherjones.com )
There is an authoritarian danger that threatens American democracy. It is a separate peril from Donald Trump and his tens of millions of rabid supports. It is the right-wing infrastructure that is publicly plotting to undermine the checks and balances of our constitutional order and concentrate unprecedented power in the...
Child poverty in the United States just more than doubled. You can thank Joe Manchin. ( www.motherjones.com )
The United States’ poverty rate experienced its largest one-year jump on record last year, with the rate among children more than doubling from 2021’s historic low of 5.2 percent to 12.4 percent according to new numbers from the US Census Bureau out today. They’re the latest data to reflect the devastating effects...
A debate over fetal viability is fracturing the abortion rights movement. ( www.motherjones.com )
Trump adviser Peter Navarro was convicted, really fast, of contempt of Congress ( www.motherjones.com )
Donald Trump and many of his acolytes take the position that the words “executive privilege” are more or less magic....
[News[ A New Rudy Scandal: FBI Agent Says Giuliani Was Co-opted by Russian Intelligence ( www.motherjones.com )
It was big news when Rudy Giuliani, once hailed as America’s Mayor, was indicted last month by a district attorney in Atlanta for allegedly being part of a criminal enterprise led by Donald Trump that sought to overturn the 2020 election results. Giuliani was back in headlines this week when he lost a defamation suit filed...
The rise of Vivek. The return of Masters. The college libertarians won’t go away. ( www.motherjones.com )
The 2024 election cycle looks like it will feature not one, but two late-30s contrarians who got their start rapping about libertarianism on elite college campuses. The first is Vivek Ramaswamy, the self-funder now enjoying a “breakout moment” in a presidential primary completely dominated by Donald Trump. The other is Blake...
The Fox GOP debate melted down when the word “climate” was mentioned ( www.motherjones.com )
After the network showed a clip of a young conservative activist saying that climate change was the number one issue for young voters, Fox News moderator Martha MacCallum asked for a show of hands in response to her question, “Do you believe human behavior is causing climate change?”...
Radicals Took Over the Michigan GOP. Now They Can’t Stop Losing. ( www.motherjones.com )
On the ground with the party’s latest insurgents.
Radicals took over the Michigan GOP. Now they can’t stop losing. ( www.motherjones.com )
Just seven years ago, Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Michigan since George H.W. Bush. But as the state GOP moved further and further to the right, Democrats capitalized on the extremism to string together major victories in 2018, 2020, and 2022, when they took full control of the state...
Javier Milei says he's the future of Argentina. He looks a lot like its past. ( www.motherjones.com )
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Donald Trump, Mob Boss—Then and Now ( www.motherjones.com )
In yet another historic indictment, Donald Trump was charged by an Atlanta prosecutor with essentially being a mob boss....
How masculinity gurus cash in on the boy crisis ( www.motherjones.com )
"Betsy DeVos was a disaster. I think Erika Donalds could be worse." ( www.motherjones.com )
In case you needed another reason to fear a second Trump administration.
One politician stopped California’s fossil fuels divestment—again ( www.motherjones.com )
One of Louisiana's only pediatric heart transplant doctors is moving because of anti-LGBTQ laws ( www.motherjones.com )
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Birthright citizenship is fundamental to “who we are as a nation.” So why do Republicans attack it? ( www.motherjones.com )
Mike Pence Fled for His Life on January 6. He Still Won't Call Trump’s Actions Criminal. ( www.motherjones.com )
Henry Kissinger at 100: Still a War Criminal ( www.motherjones.com )
Forget the birthday candles, let's count the dead.
