These Obscure Races May Decide the Future of Climate Change
A Colstrip power plant, MontanaLarry Mayer, Billings Gazette/AP Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This election cycle, environmental advocates have realized that if they want strong action on climate change, they can’t just look to the president and Congress. They need the states.…
A California Proposition Could Reinstate Affirmative Action. Why Are Some Asian Americans Against It?
Demonstrators hold slogans in front of a Boston federal courthouse in October 2018 when a lawsuit charging Harvard University of discriminating against Asian American applicants in admissions went to trial. Liu Jie/Xinhua/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Prop 16 in California would…
Biden Got It Right: The 2020 Race Is About the Soul of the Nation
Mother Jones illustration; Ken Cedeno/CNP/ZUMA, Brian Cahn/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.It always sounded hokey, but it was an accurate description of the 2020 election: a fight for the nation’s soul. Joe Biden adopted this as his catchphrase when he entered the…
What to Do If You Change Your Mind About Voting by Mail
Election workers collect ballots from a drop box in Seattle.Ted S. Warren/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This story was published originally by with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one…
What’s the Plan If a Natural Disaster Strikes on Election Day? It’s Complicated.
Voting in the Rockaway neighborhood of the borough of Queens, New York, after Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Craig Ruttle/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted the approaching hurricane season, which runs from June through November,…
Will Oregon Be the First State to Legalize Access to Magic Mushrooms?
The Mexican magic mushroom is a psilocybe cubensis, whose main active elements are psilocybin and psilocin.Alexander_Volkov/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Oregon’s push to legalize psychedelic-assisted therapy began, as bold ideas often do, in the woods. It was 2015, and Portland-based therapists Tom…