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This Supreme Court Term Was All About Undoing Democracy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court will wrap up a consequential term and issue decisions that are expected to undercut bedrock assumptions about each branch of government and create a new balance of powers—one that tips the scales toward an unassailable executive and an all-powerful judiciary. It began on Thursday, as the court gave states new leeway to discriminate against minority voters. The justices may soon add women’s right to healthcare to the list of privileges that a state may deprive its citizens, another step that would turn the clock back to a time when the Constitution viewed states rights as more sacrosanct than the rights of its people. Though the cases at issue address many different issues, a theme punctuating them all is that the Republican-appointed majority appears willing to do serious damage to American democracy.
Trial of Steve Bannon-Linked Chinese Mogul Set to Begin With Anonymous Jury
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Opening statements in the trial of exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui are expected Friday with the selection of an anonymous jury consuming the first few days of the proceeding. US District Court Judge...
Moms for Liberty Is Coming for the Swing States
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Moms for Liberty is on a mission. The conservative “parents’ rights” group will spend more than $3 million on ads in swing states ahead of the election, according to a Wednesday report in the Associated Press.
The Schools Where the Western Canon Is King
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On a recent Monday morning, 15 bleary-eyed high school seniors in Phoenix, Arizona, shuffled into English class, sat at tables that were arranged in a circle, put away their enormous water bottles, and settled down for the day’s lesson. Their teacher, a young man in a brown corduroy blazer, dispensed with housekeeping—the readings to do, the papers to write—and then he closed the tome in front of him, a paperback edition of the Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. “Who is more honest,” he asked the class, “Miusov or Fyodor?”
The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier for Republicans to Get Away With Racial Gerrymandering
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of a South Carolina congressional map that a lower court had previously found diluted the power of Black voters. In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court’s conservative supermajority wrote that “the Challengers provided no direct evidence of a racial gerrymander, and their circumstantial evidence is very weak.”
RFK Jr. Is Even Crazier Than You Might Think
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being normalized. He’s a conspiracy theorist who has made a lot of money pushing baseless or disproven notions about vaccines, Covid, and other hot-button subjects. At the start of his 2024 presidential bid, the media reported his history as a disinformationalist on multiple fronts. Yet now he’s largely covered as another character in the ongoing presidential horse race.
When Profit-Driven Clinics Kick “Noncompliant” Patients off Dialysis, Is Anybody Watching?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Tommy Alba could be a pain in the ass. It’s how he ran two bustling cafes in coastal Virginia. His linebacker physique and booming baritone, with more than a hint of a childhood New Jersey accent, could make him intimidating. Even Lorene Alba, who adored her baby brother, said he wouldn’t take no for an answer. This obstinance served him well, not just in business, but also for the dialysis treatment he received after his kidneys failed in 2011. He lacked health insurance, and his diabetes and high blood pressure had gone undiagnosed for years, working quietly in concert to destroy his kidneys.
Island Nations Notch a Climate Win From World’s Maritime Court
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Island nations in the Pacific, Caribbean, and West Indies won a major international legal victory this week that puts more pressure on large governments like the European Union and China to curb their carbon emissions.
Inside the Conservative Movement to Promote Adoption
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The mothers of ModernAdoptionPlans.org have a message for women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant: You, too, can turn this difficult time into a rewarding experience by relinquishing your baby for adoption. In glossy...
Health Facilities and Workers in Conflict Zones Suffered a Record Number of Attacks Last Year
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When Leonard Rubenstein saw the news on Monday that International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas and Israeli leaders for alleged war crimes, he was struck by what he considered to be a glaring oversight: The charges made no mention of the well-documented, devastating Israeli military attacks against Palestinian health workers and facilities.
No, Trump Supporters Are Not Being Kept From the Courthouse
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Donald Trump can’t stop complaining that his fans are being barred from showing their support for him outside the Manhattan courthouse where he’s on trial. On Monday, he told reporters that...
A Chinese Mogul With Deep MAGA Ties Is Going on Trial for Massive Fraud
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The trial of fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui kicks off in New York Wednesday, as federal prosecutors prepare to lay out what they have called a “complex” conspiracy involving elaborate financial schemes, dozens of offshore accounts, and evidence translated from Mandarin. But the heart of the case is a simple and familiar American phenomenon: political grift—a confidence job in which a demagogic leader allegedly translated partisan passion into personal gain. If the case against Guo sounds a bit like what critics say about Donald Trump, that’s no coincidence. Guo’s rise was aided by some of the same people who have boosted the former president.
Utilities Enlist Respected Nonprofit in a “Cynical PR Stunt” to Boost Gas Use
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. US gas utilities are partnering with one of the nation’s most trusted nonprofits as part of a “cynical PR stunt” to combat efforts to curb fossil fuel usage, a Guardian investigation has found.
Feds Say MAGA-Aligned Mogul Had “Opportunity and Motive to Start” Apartment Fire
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday revealed evidence they said shows fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui—as well as an unnamed person who was living with him—had the “opportunity and motive to start” a fire that severely damaged Guo’s lavish penthouse apartment hours after his March 2023 arrest.
Trump’s Social Media Company Just Keeps Losing Money
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Donald Trump’s Truth Social stock might be doing better these days, but the company is still struggling to make money. In the first three months of 2024, it pulled in just $770,000 in advertising revenue. To put that in some context, Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, earned more revenue in just three minutes, on its way to making $36.4 billion in revenue over three months.
Inside Georgia’s Crusade to Make Bail Unpayable
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In early May, Georgia lawmakers celebrated the passage of the state’s latest weapon to criminalize protest: making bail unpayable. Community bail funds, which have served as an important mutual aid strategy for...
These Child Sex Abuse Victims Had An Opportunity to Get Justice. The Louisiana Supreme Court Took It Away.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. As a teen in the 1990s, Zack was routinely abused by an older man affiliated with his Louisiana church. Zack, who asked that his real name not be used to protect his privacy, said his abuser often made him feel as though he was responsible for the molestation, despite the fact that he was a minor. When the abuse came to light, his church did nothing to dispel this feeling: His attacker was asked to leave the church for a year before being allowed to return. In the years that followed, Zack saw reports on the news of child sex abuse victims successfully suing their churches and wanted to do the same—but by the time this option occurred to him, his case had already exceeded the Louisiana statute of limitations.
Indecent Rubber Articles and a Suitcase Full of Dildos
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The old days of coat-hanger abortions will never come back, we reassured ourselves as Roe was repeatedly threatened over the years. Even once the Dobbs decision handed the power to regulate abortion to the states, we told ourselves there would be no return to bleeding out on motel room floors or back alleys, now that most abortions can happen discreetly and safely at home, thanks to the abortion pill mifepristone.
Biden Administration Under Pressure to End New Deepwater Oil Export Facilities
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Joe Biden’s administration is coming under renewed pressure to escalate its curbs on the US’s booming trade in fossil fuels by halting new deepwater oil-export facilities, as well as entrenching its pause in gas-export licenses.
What Do War Crimes Warrants for Hamas and Israeli Leaders Actually Mean?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This morning, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan announced he was seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders—Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, and Ismail Haniyeh—for alleged war crimes.
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