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Vote: What Do You Want to Know About the Green Deal?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) during a press conference announcing the Green New Deal.Alex Edelman/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, we asked Mother Jones readers what they wanted to know about the Green New Deal. We received more than a hundred questions on the climate resolution, ranging from its cost…

What’s Your Vaccination Secret?

Ethan Lindenberger testifies before the Senate about vaccinations. Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Ethan Lindenberger asked a simple question on Reddit, he probably didn’t think it’d pave the way for him to testify in front of the Senate. Posting in the popular community r/NoStupidQuestions,…

What Do You Want to Know About the Green New Deal?

Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since then representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) joined a demonstration pushing for a Green New Deal last year, politicians, pundits, and activists have debated the proposal’s ambitious goals for addressing climate change. In early February, Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a resolution…

“We Just Want to Get Back to Work”—Thousands of Federal Employees March on the White House

Tonya Riley/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday afternoon, approximately 2,000 federal workers and contractors from across the country braved icy winds and freezing temperatures to gather outside of the DC headquarters of the AFL-CIO to protest the ongoing effects of the government shutdown on their lives and work. “This…