Here’s Why Neighborhoods With More People of Color Pay Higher Energy Bills
The Alfred E. Smith Houses, a public housing development built and maintained by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, April 26, 2018.Drew Angerer/Getty This piece was originally published in CityLab and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. It is well-established that the lower a family’s…
Multiple Women Recall Sexual Misconduct and Retaliation by Gordon Sondland
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Three women say they faced sexual misconduct by Gordon Sondland before he was the U.S. ambassador to the European Union and at the center of the presidential…
Rudy Giuliani Has a Foreign-Lobbying Problem, and It Just Got Bigger
Rudy Giuliani speaks to the Organization of Iranian American Communities during their march to urge regime change in Iran, outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24, 2019.Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images) Rudy Giuliani is in danger of being charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are…
Should Journalists Be Part of the Resistance?
Over the past month or so, the New York Times’ executive editor, Dean Baquet, has been giving a handful of interviews about the role of journalism in general, and the New York Times in particular. One of these, with the BBC, briefly had our ears burning. “I make it very clear when I hire, I make…
New from the Mother Jones Podcast: Trump Is Winning His Border Wars. For Now.
Fernanda Echavarri / Mother Jones The Trump administration touts its “Remain in Mexico” policy as a resounding success. Critics call it cruel and illegal. What’s unquestionable is that President Donald Trump has now made it virtually impossible for migrants to seek asylum in the United States, leaving tens of thousands of migrant families stuck in…
Here’s Where Trump Got the Idea That “Some People” Want to Change the Name of Thanksgiving
SMG via ZUMA At a rally yesterday, President Trump gave his fans the red meat they craved: “You know, some people want to change the name Thanksgiving,” he said. “They don’t want to use the term Thanksgiving.” This confused a lot of people, and we should get something straight right off the bat: no one…