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Saturday Night Live Ruthlessly Skewers Katie Britt

Katie Britt speaks during a news conference on the border, Feb. 15, 2023.Mariam Zuhaib,/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) gave such a bizarre State of the Union rebuttal on Thursday night that it bordered on satire. But Saturday Night Live…

Trump’s Back on Top. This Is Not Fine.

Editor’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. One of the most popular internet memes is…

Can We Slash Carbon Emissions and Still Have Economic Growth?

Ying Tang/NurPhoto/Zuma This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For nearly 200 years, two transformative global forces have grown in tandem: economic activity and carbon emissions. The two have long been paired together, or, in economist-speak, “coupled.” When the economy has gotten bigger, so has our climate footprint. This…

This Week’s Episode of Reveal: Catholic Hospitals Are Thwarting Access to Abortion—Even in Blue States

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Left-leaning states are trying to preserve access to abortion—but Catholic health care mergers often stand in the way.  First, we travel with Reveal’s Nina Martin to New Mexico’s rural Otero County, where a recent hospital merger has upended the…