AOC and Bernie Sanders Aim to Tackle Housing and Climate Change in One Bill
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) take part in a press conference with other Democratic lawmakers and advocates reintroducing the Green New Deal for Public Housing.Mother Jones illustration; Francis Chung/POLITICO/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With a sweeping legislative proposal, Representative Alexandria…
Replacing the “Old Relationship”: Rep. Greg Casar On a Historic Congressional Delegation’s Trip to Latin America
Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) recently joined a historic congressional delegation to Latin America. Bill Clark/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A progressive congressional delegation has just returned from a historic trip to Latin America, where they met with three recently elected left-wing administrations in…
Replacing the “Old Relationship”: Rep. Greg Casar On a Historic Congressional Delegation’s Trip to Latin America
Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) recently joined a historic congressional delegation to Latin America. Bill Clark/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A progressive congressional delegation has just returned from a historic trip to Latin America, where they met with three recently elected left-wing administrations in Brazil, Chile, and…
Trump Says McConnell Has “DEATH WISH” In Menacing Post
Evan Vucci/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This weekend, former president Donald Trump did his best to remind us why he is banned from major social media platforms. In a post on Truth Social targeting Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Trump declared, “He has…
Why Puerto Rico Statehood Is So Much More Complicated Than It Is for DC
Ronald Lopez/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.As the partisan bias of the Senate, which favors sparsely populated states with overwhelmingly white populations, has been more broadly recognized, statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto…
The Squad Doubled Its Ranks. Now What?
Jamaal Bowman attends a news conference on Capitol Hill on September 23, 2020. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Cori Bush wanted to make something clear when I spoke with her…