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Donald Trump wants to pretend he isn’t to blame for the devastating consequences of overturning of Roe v. Wade—even as he boasts about being responsible for the momentous Supreme Court decision. In a more than four-minute-long video released on Truth Social this morning the presumptive Republican nominee attempted to clarify his nebulous stance on abortion rights. It […]
Mother JonesI am still suffering from Trump-era-induced brain melt. But even against the uncontrolled spigot of dumb that produced my malady, one especially dumb moment stands out: former President Donald Trump’s peek at a solar eclipse. As I wrote at the time, it was a deeply Trumpian incident that, true to character, defied both science and […]
Mother JonesGoogle “America’s Best Idea” and you’ll find there’s a clear frontrunner: our national parks. The United States has 63 now, including southern swamps and deep mountain canyons and forests of saguaro cacti, a collection of beloved landscapes that stretches, to quote the familiar song, “from sea to shining sea.” But America’s preeminent property rights activist, […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In response to growing pressure to address the plastic pollution crisis, Amazon has been cutting down on plastic packaging. Last July, the company said it used 11.6 percent less plastic for all of its shipments globally in 2022, compared to 2021. Much of […]
Mother JonesGeorgia could become the next state to end the subminimum wage for disabled people, a widespread and now widely opposed exception to minimum wage laws that extends to some 40,000 workers with disabilities—and the first state where such an initiative would be led by Republicans. 16 states have passed bills to end or reform the […]
Mother JonesIt seems like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott could use a dictionary. Why? Because on Sunday, the Republican went on Fox News and accused President Joe Biden of “using illegal immigrants as political pawns.” And given his own record, it is unclear if understands what the word means. Chessboards aside, Oxford Languages says a pawn is “a person […]
Mother JonesWorld Central Kitchen founder José Andrés said called for a “deeper” outside investigation of the airstrike that killed seven aid workers for his organization this week, and reiterated his claim that his colleagues were “deliberately attacked” and “targeted.” In an exclusive interview that aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Andrés said he […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Maggie Reddy was growing up on the eastern coast of South Africa in the 1990s, the tiny oceanside town where her family lived offered just two recreational options for children: the library and the beach. […]
Mother JonesWhen Caitlin Clark’s historic college career reaches its finale following Sunday’s NCAA championship game vs. undefeated South Carolina, the WNBA will welcome her and her legions of young fans with open arms. Jersey sales, ticket sales, and endorsements will bring in millions of dollars for the team that drafts her—and for the league itself. This […]
Mother JonesWhen Americans of a certain age hear the word “paraquat,” the first thing that might leap to mind is Mexican weed. That’s because, in the late 1970s, the United States government thought it would be a good idea to pay the Mexican government to spray this potent herbicide on marijuana fields south of the border. […]
Mother JonesAre Russian military defectors spies? War criminals? Or heroes? That’s one of the central questions of this week’s episode of Reveal, which follows the dramatic journey of an officer who deserted the Russian army, fled the country, and now lives in exile. This week, Associated Press reporter Erika Kinetz examines the costs of people who […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Walter Moorer likes to say he lives at 411 “Death Row Street.” At least that is what he compares his living conditions to as he is bombarded with the stench, pollution, noise, and dust that emanates from an asphalt plant […]
Mother JonesOn March 23, Steve and Tracy Slepcevic hosted a fundraiser for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the San Diego area. Tickets started at $575, and those who paid $2,750 were to be treated to a “private sunset reception” before RFK Jr. would chat with the assembled and pose for photos. It was […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early March, a small group of Democratic senators from the Rust Belt sent President Joe Biden an urgent letter. They began by extolling the benefits of two of the Biden administration’s biggest achievements, the bipartisan infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction […]
Mother JonesLast year, 25-year-old Carlee Russell called 911 in Hoover, Alabama, reporting that there was a child on the interstate. Then Russell vanished, and no child was found. A massive search effort followed, along with a national media frenzy. Two days later, she returned home, seemingly unharmed but claiming that she had escaped a kidnapping. After […]
Mother JonesIn late February, after Donald Trump had nearly vanquished the entirety of the Republican primary field, his spokesman, Steven Cheung, took aim at the one opponent still standing. “Birdbrain, are you a liar or just plain stupid?” he tweeted. “Birdbrain” was, of course, Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and Trump’s ambassador to […]
Mother JonesCandace Wicks believes in the importance of educating people. For three decades, Wicks was an elementary school teacher with the Dallas Independent School District, which at one point named her its teacher of the year. Now retired, Wicks, who is 58, works to educate fellow Texans on why they should vote in not just federal […]
Mother JonesThe ripple effects of Dobbs continue to emerge in unexpected places—and to threaten other civil liberties. Yesterday, Uganda’s constitutional court, the country’s second-highest judicial body, cited the US Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade in its ruling to uphold the majority of a sweeping anti-gay law that criminalizes homosexuality and same-sex marriage, and allows for […]
Mother JonesWorld Central Kitchen founder José Andrés accused Israel on Wednesday of deliberately targeting the organization’s seven aid workers killed in an airstrike on Monday, “systematically, car by car,” rejecting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that they were unintentionally killed. “This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘oops’ we dropped the bomb in the […]
Mother JonesOn Tuesday, Susan MacManus, a political science professor emerita at the University of South Florida, spoke to the Democratic Club of Sarasota about the upcoming election. Despite polling consistently showing that Donald Trump is expected to claim the state in November and that incumbent Republican Senator Rick Scott is “likely” to retain his power in […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Out among a scattering of islands spilled like beads into the Indonesian shallows, an extended experiment in coral restoration has revealed something marvelous: With a tender touch and a community to care for it, a reef can fully recover from the […]
Mother JonesLast week, Annelle Sheline publicly resigned from the State Department in protest of the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza. “My colleagues and I watched in horror as this administration delivered thousands of precision-guided munitions, bombs, small arms and other lethal aid to Israel,” Sheline explained in a CNN op-ed outlining why she […]
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. In the previous issue of my Our Land newsletter, I […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A limitless supply of heat exists beneath our feet within the Earth’s crust, but harnessing it at scale has proved challenging. Now, a combination of new techniques, government support and the pressing need to secure continuous clean power in […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Capital & Main. The protests and student walkoutshave stopped as an uneasy calm settles over St. Charles County, Missouri, after the community’s all-white school board threatened to eliminate both a Black history class and Black literature class, saying the curriculum contained elements of critical race theory. As community outrage […]
Mother JonesThis week, Israel fired three missiles at an aid convoy for the World Central Kitchen (WCK), killing seven workers delivering food in Gaza. The strike hit labeled vehicles, according to the group, which was founded by chef José Andrés and has become famous for delivering meals to disaster sites across the world. The Isreali newspaper […]
Mother JonesThis story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. During former President Donald Trump’s time in office, his administration rolled back a variety of safeguards for wildlife and plants under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), a landmark species conservation law created in 1973. On Thursday, the Biden Administration officially […]
Mother JonesFlorida’s Supreme Court issued a pair of major rulings today on abortion that will both further restrict access in the short-term and allow voters to decide whether or not to expand abortion rights this November. One of the court’s rulings will allow a six-week abortion ban—signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis last April—to take effect, […]
Mother JonesDonald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social landed last week on the stock market as a publicly traded company with a whole lot of hype—share prices rocketed as high as $79, instantly adding as much $6.2 billion to the former president’s wealth, at least on paper. But then reality hit. On Monday, Truth Social, which […]
Mother JonesDespite being “the cheapest weapon known to man,” sexual violence in war is “almost always ignored in the history books,” writes journalist Christina Lamb in her 2020 book, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women. In the book, Lamb, the chief foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times in Britian, tried to change […]