Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last week, I wrote about the far-right groups accusing Sarasota Memorial, a public safety-net hospital in Florida, of mistreating Covid patients. Despite a painstaking review showing that the hospital’s Covid outcomes have exceeded…
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. And it’s been quite a spectacle. Lots of stuff happening. Fortunately, we’ve got Washington Post tech reporter Drew Harwell on the hearing beat to break down the proceedings for us. And who better to cover this…
Banks used by Jeffrey Epstein can be sued for sex trafficking, says court. A federal court says that sex-trafficking lawsuits against JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank can go forward. In three separate but similar suits, the two banks are being accused of knowingly benefiting from sex trafficking by allowing Jeffrey…
Image source, PA Media Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to be questioned by MPs over allegations he may have misled Parliament about Covid rule-breaking parties – claims he denies. Investigations carried out by senior civil servant Sue Gray and the Metropolitan Police last year found rules had been broken…
How much sense does it have to ignore objective reality and to instead embrace a subjective wishlist of concepts creating boundaries outside of which you cannot think or speak? This for me is the self-created miasma of myopia that western political and media elites have created for themselves. Conceiving Putin…
The rise of high-profile, right-wing women in politics and positions of power isn’t translating into substantive representation of women’s concerns. Quite the opposite in fact. The government has announced a ‘childcare revolution’, introducing 30 hours of free childcare for children from the age of nine months. The Chancellor says it…
Crispin Blunt is the Chair of the APPG on Drug Policy Reform, and is MP for Reigate. Ben Ramanauskas is a research fellow at Oxford University, associate fellow at Bright Blue, and former adviser at the Department of International Trade. Psychedelics should be available to enable much more effective treatment of…
The British remote gambling industry has grown rapidly in the past two decades. This is all thanks to the relaxation of iGaming laws in 2005 and the rise of online gambling. The Gambling Act of 2005 legalized nearly all forms of online gaming in the country, from slot machines to…
What’s going on with Ron DeSantis and his ugly, misbegotten state? Well, this week he’s been trying to show us how serious he is about running for president, by demonstrating for Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and Vladimir Putin that he can be just as much of a Russian stooge as…
Tucker Carlson asked every GOP presidential candidate to answer six key questions on the war in Ukraine which was an EXCELLENT idea. Sort of a primary debate without the debate, if that makes sense. And truth be told, seeing who they consider possible candidates is also very interesting. If this…