This Virtual Reality Video Will Show You Why Ice Storms Can Be So Deadly
This story was originally published by the Weather Channel. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the threat of Winter Storm Harper looms over the Midwest and Northeast, public officials from Kansas to Vermont have begun preparations for heavy snow and treacherous travel conditions. Meteorologist Jim Cantore, using the Weather Channel’s Immersive Mixed Reality technology,…
Teachers at This South LA High School Are Picketing to Get Their Students More Resources
Darryl McKellar, right, an English teacher at Susan Miller Dorsey Senior High School, joined thousands of teachers at rally in Grand Park during Los Angeles teachers strike. Edwin Rios/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Outside Susan Miller Dorsey Senior High School in Los Angeles on Friday, students hauled their…
On the Road With Matthew Houck, a.k.a. Phosphorescent
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Matthew Houck, who has long recorded and performed as Phosphorescent, performed with his band last month at the East Williamsburg venue Brooklyn Steel for the second to last show (opener: Liz Cooper & the Stampede) of their European and US tour. Houck, best known…
Thousands of Striking Teachers Rally in Downtown Los Angeles
Edwin Rios/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, the fifth day of this year’s historic strike teachers’ strike in Los Angeles, an exodus of students, parents, teachers, and supporters flooded out of the nearby Metro station, and stomped onto the muddy greenery at Grand Park in downtown LA.…
Chicago Cop Convicted of Murdering Black Teen Gets Nearly Seven Years in Prison
Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke attends his sentencing hearing in Chicago for the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald.Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/AP/Pool Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jason Van Dyke, the white former Chicago police officer who was convicted of second-degree murder in October for killing black 17-year-old Laquan McDonald…
Consumer Groups Want a New Government Agency Created to Protect Data Privacy
alashi/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A group of tech consumer groups and racial justice organizations released an aggressive new proposal on Thursday calling on the federal government to create an entirely new federal agency tasked with data privacy protection. “Our privacy laws are decades out of date,” the…