Don’t Call Elon Musk a “Green” Billionaire
Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Elon Musk was once lauded as a sort of green Tony Stark—the genius inventor who leads a double life as superhero Iron Man—for single-handedly tackling the climate crisis one Tesla at a time, helping to forge a clean energy…
Piecing Together the Evidence: Open-Source Intelligence in Israel’s Gaza War
Mother Jones; Getty; Photo courtesy of Elliot Higgins Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Open one social media platform and you’re hit with a fake video; open another and you’re hit with bigotry. Open a news article, and you’ll find some victims “killed” but others “dying.” Each account of events in Israel…
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Swarm UN Treaty Talks on Plastics Pollution
Workers sort used plastic bottles at a recycling factory in Dhaka, BangladeshJoy Saha/Zuma This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Fossil fuel and chemical company interests are out in force at the United Nations meeting in Nairobi, where delegates from about 170 countries are negotiating the…
“As if They Just Dropped Dead”: Navigating the Israel-Palestine War of Words
Mother Jones; Getty; Photo courtesy of Tamara Kharroub Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Open one social media platform and you’re hit with a fake video; open another and you’re hit with bigotry. Open a news article, and you’ll find some victims “killed” but others “dying.” Each account of events in Israel…
Henry Ford Perfected the Mass Production of Cars—and Antisemitism
Keystone/Getty; Wikipedia Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Henry Ford may be known for revolutionizing the automobile industry, but there’s another thing he mass produced: antisemitism. That’s one thing my colleague Dan Schulman explains in his new book, The Money Kings: The Epic Story of…
What to Know About the Hostage Deal Between Israel and Hamas
A woman plasters photos of Israeli children from Kibbutz Afar Azza missing and held captive in Gaza, in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.Ariel Schalit/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Hamas and Israel will free hostages and prisoners in a deal brokered by American, Qatari, and Egyptian…