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Since 2020, firearms have been the leading cause of death for children and teens in America, killing thousands each year. Shootings and threats of gun violence in the nation’s schools have also escalated sharply. These trends are accompanied by another stark and evolving phenomenon: insidious marketing to kids by the gun industry. The promotional tactics […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Former officials in the UN’s farming wing have said they were censored, sabotaged, undermined and victimized for more than a decade after they wrote about the hugely damaging contribution of methane emissions from livestock to global heating. Team members at the […]
Mother JonesDuring the 2012 presidential campaign, when I obtained and posted a secretly recorded video of GOP nominee Mitt Romney deriding 47 percent of Americans as shiftless freeloaders who don’t “take personal responsibility and care for their lives,” I assumed this scoop would have an impact on the election. With President Barack Obama and the Democrats […]
Mother JonesThe United Auto Workers Union is ramping up its unprecedented strike against the nation’s three major automakers and hitting one company where it hurts: pickup trucks. On Monday, in a surprise move from the union, UAW president Shawn Fain announced that more than 6,800 employees are walking off work at a pickup truck production plant […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Christine Louis-Jeune knew she was home when she saw ash falling from the sky and onto her windshield. She hadn’t been back to her central Florida hometown of Belle Glade in six months. She was both exhausted after a six-plus […]
Mother JonesRoshdi Sarraj, a reporter who co-founded a Palestinian media company, was killed Sunday in the Gaza Strip. He was at least the 23rd journalist to die since October 7, among more than 4,000 people killed in the Israel-Hamas war, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Sarraj was killed by an Israeli strike that hit […]
Mother JonesEarlier this year George Santos, the fabulist congressman facing federal fraud charges, took up the cause of exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui, a fellow fabulist who is also facing federal fraud charges. Guo, along with Steve Bannon, leads a group called the New Federal State of China, which claims to be dedicated to overthrowing the […]
Mother JonesFormer Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, we learned Thursday, agreed to write a letter of apology to citizens of the state of Georgia for her role in a scheme to illegally access voting records there. The letter, which the Washington Post described as “a terse handwritten note on a legal pad” is part of a plea […]
Mother JonesI create videos about race and history for a living, which results in being inundated with racist comments, dog-whistles, instances of historical revisionism or apologia, and other stupid stuff. Every time I broach the subject of slavery, for example, there it is, the inevitable comment: “What about the Irish slaves in America?” Often, it feels […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Roman Empire fell more than 1,500 years ago, but its grip on the popular imagination is still strong, as evidenced by a recent trend on TikTok. Women started filming the men in their lives to document their answers to a […]
Mother JonesThings are getting wild on Nancy Mace’s Twitter account. The South Carolina congresswoman—an on-again-off-again Trump ally who once told the only funny joke about January 6—was one of the eight Republicans who voted with Democrats a few weeks back to remove Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. She then helped kill House Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) […]
Mother JonesAfter a screening of Martin Scorsese’s slow-drip drama Killers of the Flower Moon in New York earlier this month, an agent with the film’s promotion team asked what I thought. At the time, all I could say was, “Brutal.” The movie, which is based on a book of the same name, stars Lily Gladstone, Leonardo […]
Mother JonesAfter Republicans finally dethroned Jim Jordan as their speaker of the House nominee Friday, GOP eyes turned to Rep. Tom Emmer. The Minnesota congressman seemed like the natural choice: He engineered his party’s successful effort to retake the House in 2022, and he’s currently the third-ranking Republican in that chamber. Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy quickly […]
Mother JonesOn Friday, Mother Jones published a yearlong investigation into the warehousing of foster children at facilities owned by the nation’s largest psychiatric hospital chain, Universal Health Services. Today, we’re pleased to share a new podcast version of the investigation as part of a special collaboration with Reveal: The investigation follows the story of Katrina […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A withering drought has turned the Amazonian capital of Manaus into a climate dystopia with the second worst air quality in the world and rivers at the lowest levels in 121 years. The city of 1 million people, which […]
Mother JonesThe Biden administration is asking Congress to approve a $106 billion proposal that would mostly benefit Ukrainian and Israeli war and defense efforts. The administration wants roughly $61 billion for Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel with the large majority of that money going to military supplies. These are massive numbers: In the 2019 fiscal […]
Mother JonesOn September 15, 2020, President Donald Trump, sitting next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on a White House balcony, delivered a speech in which he declared they were changing the course of history. Celebrating the signing of normalization agreements between Israel and these […]
Mother JonesKenneth Chesebro, an architect of the fake electors plot Donald Trump used to try to steal the 2020 election, pleaded guilty in Fulton Country, Georgia, Friday to a felony count of conspiracy to file false documents. He has agreed to testify in the upcoming trials of other defendants, including Trump. The plea follows a the deal […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One-third of American kitchens have gas stoves—and evidence is piling up that they’re polluting homes with toxic chemicals. A study this summer found that using a single gas stove burner on high can raise levels of cancer-causing benzene above what’s been […]
Mother JonesAfter Hurricane Ida hit Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in September 2021, pharmacy lines and wait times started to grow. At the height of the storm, many pharmacies closed; in the aftermath, some had limited hours, in part due to understaffing. Pharmacies, both large chains and independents, had been struck by the climate crisis. “We’re getting a […]
Mother JonesThe Americans pulling into the luxury Caribbean resort town of Juan Dolio could have easily passed as tourists. Dressed in jeans and tennis shoes, they set up at a hotel overlooking the Dominican Republic’s southern coast. But the group, which included law enforcement officers from the US Department of Homeland Security, wasn’t traveling to enjoy […]
Mother JonesLast week, a leaked staff memo from the director of journalistic standards and public trust at Canada’s largest broadcaster drew wide attention for instructing reporters, “Do not refer to militants, soldiers, or anyone else as ‘terrorists.’” “Terrorism remains heavily politicized” and is too subjective and slanted a word for reporters to use outside of attributed […]
Mother JonesThe Bush boys are back to argue, once more, for war. President Biden visited Israel this week to reaffirm his unwavering support while cautioning against a military response “consumed by rage.” Though far from the ceasefire many progressives had hoped Biden would publicly urge for during the visit, the warning was a tacit acknowledgment of the […]
Mother JonesUpdate, October 19, 2:47 pm ET: Never mind, apparently he’s going to try again! BREAKING — JORDAN says he expects another speaker vote. Says he wants to meet w the 20 nos. — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 19, 2023 Unless Jim Jordan dresses up as the top House Republican for Halloween, it looks like he […]
Mother JonesSidney Powell, the former Donald Trump attorney who is charged along with the former president and 17 others in an election subversion case in Georgia, pleaded guilty Thursday to six misdemeanor charges and agreed to testify about the alleged scheme in upcoming proceedings. Powell and attorney Kenneth Chesebro were set to go on trial in the case tomorrow. […]
Mother JonesIn recent years, thousands of foster kids have been admitted to psychiatric facilities owned by health care giant Universal Health Services, according to a yearlong Mother Jones investigation. Sometimes, they leave far worse off than when they arrived. While the investigation focuses on the story of Katrina Edwards, who spent years in UHS’s North Star […]
Mother JonesThe first time Katrina Edwards was locked in a psychiatric hospital for children, she was sure a foster parent would pick her up the next day. It was a spring night in 2012 when Edwards, then 12 years old, was admitted to North Star Behavioral Health in Anchorage. In a photo taken upon her arrival, […]
Mother JonesUniversal Health Services, the country’s largest psychiatric hospital chain, claims on its website to provide compassionate care with a “relentless focus on quality” to thousands of patients each year. And it does well by investors, too: The publicly traded, Fortune 500 company brought in $13.4 billion last year. But a yearlong Mother Jones investigation tells […]
Mother JonesIn 1996, when Leonard Rubenstein became the executive director of Physicians for Human Rights, the war in the former Yugoslavia had just ended. PHR, a US-based advocacy group, prepared a report on the brutal attacks on Kosovo Hospital in Sarajevo and against health workers in Bosnia and Croatia, and Rubenstein was shocked by what it […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Officials from declining coal communities in Wyoming worry that the Biden administration’s environmental justice agenda is hurting their ability to compete for billions of dollars in federal clean energy and infrastructure grants, including funding that’s intended to help communities that […]