1 Million People in the United States Have Died of Covid
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.More than two years after the start of the pandemic, the United States has reached a staggering milestone: 1 million Americans dead from Covid-19. Since March 2020, the coronavirus has radically reshaped life. We live in a…
If Abortion Is Illegal, Will Every Miscarriage Be a Potential Crime?
martin-dm/Getty Images Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On a humid morning in early October, Brittney Poolaw sat in an Oklahoma courtroom waiting on a verdict. Instead of the jail uniform she’d donned over the past 18 months, she wore a yellow…
The Real Winner of the Ohio Republican Primary Is Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, offers a pair of hundred dollar bills to attendees, to help make a point about the poor longterm value of cash, during a keynote address at the Bitcoin Conference last month in Miami Beach.Rebecca Blackwell/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our…
Abortion’s Last Chance in the South
This article is a collaboration between Mother Jones and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, which is a nonprofit investigative newsroom. Sign up to get their investigations emailed to you directly. For two decades, Kelly Flynn barely noticed the protesters who gathered almost daily along University Boulevard, the main public drag to the office park that houses her clinic, A…
Biden’s $33 Billion Aid Request for Ukraine Is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen
President Joe Biden tours a Lockheed Martin facility in Alabama where Javelin anti-tank missiles are manufactured.Evan Vucci/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In the little more than two months since Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States has committed $14 billion in…
The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Next Target: Birth Control
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.A few weeks ago, I attended the annual conference of the anti-abortion group Heartbeat International. Even though the Supreme Court’s draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade hadn’t yet been leaked, there was palpable excitement about…