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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized long-awaited new limits on soot, the tiny air pollution particles emitted by sources as varied as power plants, factories, car exhaust, and wildfires. “Today’s action is a critical step forward that will better […]
Mother JonesWhen he ran for president in 2004, Democrats were counting on Sen. John Kerry’s military service to define him as a strong leader after 2001’s terrorist attack and George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. The decorated Vietnam War veteran headed into the party’s convention with a 3-to 6-point lead over Bush, who had dodged serving […]
Mother JonesThe farm bill is one of the most important but least understood pieces of US legislation, and it’s overdue for renewal. But Congress couldn’t pass a new version in the fall, reflecting partisan dysfunction and also a contentious debate about what the bill ought to be—a debate that has become ensnared in the nation’s culture […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United States’s first major climate legislation dismantled, a crackdown on government scientists, a frenzy of oil and gas drilling, the Paris climate deal not only dead but buried. A blueprint is emerging for a second Donald Trump term that is even more extreme […]
Mother JonesIn a major win for environmentalists, the Biden administration announced late last month it would put a temporary hold on new export permits for liquefied natural gas to “take a hard look” at the impacts of the fuel on “energy costs, America’s energy security, and our environment.” In a statement explaining the hold, Joe Biden […]
Mother JonesOn Tuesday, House Republicans fell short of getting enough votes to adopt a resolution to impeach Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas in what would have been the first impeachment of a cabinet leader since 1876. The vote was the culmination of incessant attacks by House Republicans against the secretary, who they accused of “willful and […]
Mother JonesIn a historic decision on Tuesday, a jury convicted the first parent ever to be tried on homicide charges for a mass shooting committed by her child. Jennifer Crumbley was found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with an attack carried out by her 15-year-old son Ethan, who murdered four students and […]
Mother JonesToday is Nevada’s presidential primary. But for Republicans, the vote will be largely meaningless. Even though the state legislature passed a law replacing party caucuses with a statewide primary election in 2021, the GOP balked and opted to retain its caucus. That event, which will actually apportion delegates to the Republicans’ national convention, will take […]
Mother JonesOn Tuesday morning, a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, told Donald Trump to get lost. That is, it rejected his claim that as a former president he has total immunity for actions he took while in the White House. Trump had cooked up this argument to challenge the indictment filed against him by special […]
Mother JonesA federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s claims of absolute immunity, ruling that the former president is not exempt from prosecution over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. “For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant,” […]
Mother JonesIn early December, John Zogby, a prominent American pollster, appeared on Sky News Australia, as he occasionally does, to chat about the latest developments in the US presidential campaign. He noted that it was bad news for Biden: “I haven’t seen one published poll in the states or, for that matter, nationwide, including my own […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. John Podesta already has a lot on his plate. The veteran political strategist has been working for the past year as a senior adviser to President Joe Biden overseeing the rollout of the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest climate law in United […]
Mother JonesWhen I spoke to Mandi Remington in late January, she had $7 in her bank account and had run out of milk. At times like these, which happen toward the end of most months, she cobbles together “stone soup” from what’s in the house, she said, or feeds her three children and then makes her […]
Mother JonesWhen I spoke to Mandi Remington in late January, she had $7 in her bank account and had run out of milk. At times like these, which happen toward the end of most months, she cobbles together “stone soup” from what’s in the house, she said, or feeds her three children and then makes her […]
Mother JonesThere appears to be a loyalty test for aspiring Republican vice presidents: Will you question the 2020 election on TV? In an interview that aired on This Week With George Stephanopoulos yesterday, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio)—the infamous former never-Trumper who is now reportedly under consideration to be Trump’s running mate—told the ABC News host that he […]
Mother JonesBernie Moreno, the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate for US Senate in Ohio, focuses his campaign on a central theme. “All public policy priorities in America should revolve around a simple concept: what is good for American workers,” his campaign website states. But as the former operator of M11 Motors, a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Burlington, Massachusetts, Moreno […]
Mother JonesBernie Moreno, the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate for US Senate in Ohio, focuses his campaign on a central theme. “All public policy priorities in America should revolve around a simple concept: what is good for American workers,” his campaign website states. But as the former operator of M11 Motors, a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Burlington, Massachusetts, Moreno […]
Mother JonesIn 2020, Joe Biden campaigned on the idea that Trump-era immigration policies amounted to “a moral failure and a national shame.” Now, he is backing a border deal that is so aligned with conservative goals that it causes glee: “[W]e would never get [these measures] in a Republican Senate,” Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) recently gushed, […]
Mother JonesWhen the US targeted Russia’s oligarchs after the invasion of Ukraine, the trail of assets kept leading to our own backyard. Not only had our nation become a haven for shady foreign money, but we were also incubating a familiar class of yacht-owning, industry-dominating, resource-extracting billionaires. In the January + February 2024 issue of our magazine, we […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Lawmakers in Utah are advancing legislation aimed at stopping a growing “rights of nature” movement that has coalesced around efforts in the state to save the Great Salt Lake, which is drying up as a combination of climate […]
Mother JonesPresidential hopeful Nikki Haley, who in the latest polls trails Donald Trump by double digits, got a bizarre helping hand from SNL on Saturday night, when she appeared as a special surprise guest during the show’s cold open. In the sketch, James Austin Johnson played Trump in a South Carolina Town Hall, fielding questions from an […]
Mother JonesHouse Speaker Mike Johnson believes in facts. “Facts are stubborn things, and they do not change,” he said this Sunday on Meet the Press. Neither does his stance on single-party impeachment, he would like us to believe. “The founders of this country warned against the single-party impeachment,” he said in December 2019, as the House of […]
Mother JonesEditor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial of Our Land here. After the recent drone attack on […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As human-caused climate change points a giant hair dryer at Western North America’s glaciers, melting them ever more rapidly, potential Pacific salmon habitat is opening up. New river systems are starting to flow, and rain and snowmelt will […]
Mother JonesOn Friday, the United States launched retaliatory airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against targets linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and Iranian-backed militant groups. The strikes have reportedly killed nearly 40 people, with more military operations expected to follow amidst growing tension in the Middle East and fears of a wider regional conflict. “The […]
Mother JonesOn Saturday, a far-right convoy calling itself “God’s army” is set to host rallies at different border towns along the US-Mexico border to decry what they call a migrant “invasion.” Throughout the week, the group’s organizers made their way from Virginia Beach to Jacksonville, Florida, before splitting into three groups heading to rallies in Yuma, Arizona, […]
Mother JonesOn Thursday, Mother Jones and Reveal finalized our merger, bringing two nonprofit investigative journalism powerhouses under one roof. Now we’re thrilled to release the first Reveal episode since the two organizations officially joined forces: In this week’s show, New Hampshire Public Radio’s Lauren Chooljian uncovers the widespread culture of sexual misconduct in the addiction treatment industry—a […]
Mother JonesChristian Ziegler, the former chairman of the Florida Republican Party who got booted last month after being accused of raping a woman who had been sexually involved with him and his wife, is now claiming to be the victim of a crime in an effort to fend off the release of information from his cellphone. […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Rebecca Helm despises the phrase “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” This moniker is used to describe the vast stretch of ocean from the West Coast of North America to Japan that is crammed with an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of trash, […]
Mother JonesMore than 150 Democratic members of Congress have written to President Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra with a demand: Do more to prevent the criminalization of pregnant people post-Dobbs and to support those who are unfairly targeted by law enforcement. The letter, dated Thursday, highlights the case […]