The President of the nation’s leading Black civil rights organization has issued a stark warning to voters as the election shapes up to be a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump—framing this year’s fight for the White House as a battle to beat back fascism itself. “We are looking at Nazism part two,” said […]
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s announcement last week that she was deploying 750 National Guard soldiers to patrol the city’s subway system came as something of a shock. Several violent incidents had taken place on the subway in recent weeks. But there were no increased threats of a possible terrorist attack; it had only been […]
In October, Admiral Rachel Levine gave the keynote address at the national convention for the Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, or “PFLAG,” as it’s been known since its founding in the 1970s. Standing before a backdrop patterned with rainbow hearts and queer rights slogans, Levine’s long gray hair was tied back in […]
Today, a conspiracy theory that was hitherto a growing obsession of Twitter sleuths and the Royal-curious blew up into the Global Water Cooler Moment of the week (including here at Mother Jones): Where in the world is Kate Middleton? And if you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about because you spent the weekend […]
This story was originally published by Yale360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The town of Smackover, Arkansas, was founded a hundred years ago when a sawmill operator got lucky: his wildcat oil well yielded a gusher. For a time in the 1920s, the oil field beneath the clay hills and […]
After a bruising month of media coverage and political attacks focused on Joe Biden’s age, the president’s campaign is finally responding head-on. Following his energetic State of the Union Address on Thursday night, Biden’s reelection campaign raised a record $10 million in 24 hours, reports NBC News. On Saturday, the campaign launched a major ad […]
Whenever Donald Trump speaks, somewhere out there a young lawyer makes partner. During a campaign rally in Rome, Georgia last night, the former president once again claimed that E. Jean Carroll had falsely accused him of raping her. Trump describes E Jean Carroll's claims against him as "false accusations" even after a jury found him […]
Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) gave such a bizarre State of the Union rebuttal on Thursday night that it bordered on satire. But Saturday Night Live turned it up a notch with its own send-up of Britt’s speech, with Scarlett Johansson playing the role of Britt. The monologue explicitly explained what made the original speech so […]
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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For nearly 200 years, two transformative global forces have grown in tandem: economic activity and carbon emissions. The two have long been paired together, or, in economist-speak, “coupled.” When the economy has gotten bigger, so has our climate footprint. This pairing has […]