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In his closing statement at last night’s GOP presidential debate, Vivek Ramaswamy rattled off a list of his “10 campaign commandments”: God is real. There are two genders. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels. Reverse racism is racism. An open border is no border. Parents determine the education of their children. The nuclear family is the […]
Mother JonesOne of the glaring ironies of former president Donald Trump (and his cronies) facing accountability for their attempts to subvert the democratic process is that Republicans have been forced to acknowledge the indignities of the American criminal legal system. After witnessing the conditions that alleged January 6th insurrectionists faced at the infamous Southeast DC jail, […]
Mother JonesCarlos Sauceda called the United States home for 27 years, more than half of his life. In 1992, he left Honduras as an 11-year-old boy to reunite with his mother, who had moved north when he was just 18 months old. Sauceda grew up in Los Angeles as a green card holder. He was surrounded […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Questions loom about what role the climate crisis played in supercharging Storm Hilary and whether there could be more like it in the future. After a year of weather extremes in California and the US west—including record-breaking winter rain and […]
Mother JonesDonald Trump may have skipped the first Republican presidential debate. But nearly one hour into the televised event on Wednesday, the issue of the former president’s four indictments, and whether the eight candidates on the debate stage would support his candidacy should he be convicted, took center stage. “If former president Trump is convicted in […]
Mother JonesSomething incredible happened in Milwaukee tonight. When GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy declared that the “climate change agenda is a hoax,” a crowd full of Republicans started to boo. He was responding to a question posed by Fox News moderator Martha MacCallum, shortly after the network showed a clip of a Young Americans for Freedom […]
Mother JonesSomething incredible happened in Milwaukee tonight. 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?” Florida […]
Mother JonesRudy Giuliani, the ex-prosecutor and Trump attorney who made his name prosecuting mobsters under racketeering statutes, was booked today in Atlanta on racketeering charges. The charges, filed by Georgia prosecutors earlier this month, allege that Giuliani and 19 others—including former President Donald Trump—conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The former New York City […]
Mother JonesRoyce White announced that he will be running for U.S. Senate in 2024, according to a video posted to his Twitter account. This came within days of a debut of a new conspiracy theory: That “advanced weapons” were related to the horrific fires in Hawaii. In 2022, White, the former first-round NBA draft pick and […]
Mother JonesLast fall, Jonathan Stettin decided he and his longtime partner Jeanie would stay put in their Cape Coral, Florida, home, rather than evacuate for Hurricane Ian. Meteorologists had warned that the storm was destined to make landfall around Tampa, which is 130 miles north of Stettin’s one-story modern stucco home near Fort Myers. But the […]
Mother JonesLast fall, Jonathan Stettin decided he and his longtime partner Jeanie would stay put in their Cape Coral, Florida home, rather than evacuate for Hurricane Ian. Meteorologists had warned that the storm was destined to make landfall around Tampa, which is 130 miles north of Stettin’s one-story modern stucco home near Fort Myers. But the […]
Mother JonesLast fall, Jonathan Stettin decided he and his longtime partner Jeanie would stay put in their Cape Coral, Florida home, rather than evacuate for Hurricane Ian. Meteorologists had warned that the storm was destined to make landfall around Tampa, which is 130 miles north of Stettin’s one-story modern stucco home near Fort Myers. But the […]
Mother JonesOn Monday, more than 25 of the leading voting rights groups in Georgia—including Fair Fight Action and New Georgia Project, both founded by former Georgia state legislator Stacey Abrams—signed an open letter that strongly criticized what they described as voter suppression tactics happening in their state. The letter wasn’t addressed to Republicans. It was sent […]
Mother JonesIn early June, roughly 250 Michiganders filed into a windowless banquet hall for the Macomb County GOP’s annual Lincoln Dinner. The dining tables were decorated with white tablecloths, tiny American flags, and famous Lincoln quotes, while the silent auction display off to the side featured Trump Wine, a cardboard cutout of Donald and Melania, and […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Gas companies in two of Canada’s largest provinces are relying on reports with erroneous numbers and deleted information that make natural gas appear more sustainable and cost-effective than it actually is as they race to lock in fossil fuel […]
Mother JonesThis story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a newsroom that investigates inequality ABERDEEN, Wash.—Under an overcast sky, Patty Flores led a group of colleagues to an empty lot in the mobile home park where she lived. A bare patch of grass traced the outline of a home set ablaze in […]
Mother JonesThe Teamsters union ratified a five-year contract with UPS on Tuesday, officially ending the threat of a strike and ensuring wage increases for all unionized workers. Last month, the two parties reached a preliminary agreement, which promised to raise all workers’ wages by $2.75 per hour in 2023 and by $7.50 over the next five […]
Mother JonesAnother Trump arrest is upon us this week. For those just tuning in, here’s a rundown of some key updates. Two of Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants kicked off the surrender parade on Tuesday, with Scott Hall and John Eastman appearing before Fulton County authorities to get booked on charges related to Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn […]
Mother JonesSecret Invasion, Marvel Studios’ new six-part miniseries, was supposed to be the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s answer to the Star Wars series Andor: a political spy thriller filled with intrigue, focused on the murkier sides of a large, interconnected universe. Instead, Secret Invasion is emblematic of—and yet another vehicle for—Marvel Studios’ empty political commentary. Through its ups and […]
Mother JonesA bipartisan bill to reform the national organ donor network has reached President Joe Biden’s desk, spelling the likely end of a troubled monopoly in place for close to four decades. Signed, the law will let HHS officials, who have commended the changes, award multiple federal contracts to manage the network—part of a wider plan to […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A cutting-edge energy storage company is building its main manufacturing plant where a once-thriving West Virginia steel mill once stood in the city of Weirton. According to lawmakers, the much-lauded project was made possible by incentives from 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act […]
Mother JonesThis piece was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a newsroom that investigates inequality. JACKSON, Miss.—Amia Edwards lives here because she wants to make a difference. But in this majority-Black city, long starved for funding by the state’s mostly white Legislature, that’s proved a steep challenge. The city’s recent water crisis came […]
Mother JonesThis piece was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a newsroom that investigates inequality. Amia Edwards lives here because she wants to make a difference. But in this majority-Black city, long starved for funding by the state’s mostly white Legislature, that’s proved a steep challenge. The city’s recent water crisis came after […]
Mother JonesAfter graduating from a Denver nursing school in 2016, Neil Rudis knew the real training wouldn’t start until his first job—ideally in acute care at a Level 1 trauma center treating the sickest and most injured patients. So he was excited to sign on at the neurological intensive care unit at University of Colorado Hospital, […]
Mother JonesAfter finishing first in Argentina’s primary elections on Sunday, Javier Milei is the leading candidate to become the next president of the South American country. A former pugilistic television talking head, the libertarian economist has been dubbed “a new Trump.” But that’s not quite right. Yes, Milei, who has served in Congress since 2021, represents the type of […]
Mother JonesRussia’s space program, commonly known as Roscosmos, is employing some impressive verbal gymnastics to explain the failure of its pilotless spacecraft to land on the south pole of the moon this weekend. “The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the moon,” […]
Mother JonesRight-wing trickster James O’Keefe, who has spent more than a decade creating deceptive videos aimed at embarrassing liberals, is under investigation in New York following accusations that he misspent funds of the organization he founded, Project Veritas. While the details of the investigation—first reported by The Nation—are not yet public, they could relate to O’Keefe’s alleged […]
Mother JonesFormer New Jersey governor and current Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie wants the federal government to come down hard on protesters who are trying to stop the construction of a police training facility in Atlanta, commonly dubbed “Cop City.” Since late 2021, a decentralized group of protesters has occupied the forest where a complex to train […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At a conference in Seattle this summer, Coca-Cola set up shop in an exhibition hall to show off one of its most recent sustainability initiatives. A six-foot-tall interactive jukebox invited passersby to listen to “recycled records”—seven audio tracks that, according […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientists first spotted the Blob in late 2013. The sprawling patch of unusually tepid water in the Gulf of Alaska grew, and grew some more, until it covered an area about the size of the continental United States. Over the course […]