Organized Religion Is Having a Bad Few Decades
The last few decades sure have been bad ones for organized religion. Conservative Christians have decided that the sum total of the Bible is about reestablishing the sex and gender mores of the 19th century. Liberal protestantism is so unassuming that hardly anyone even remembers it exists. The Catholic Church has been responsible for the…
A Fox News Contributor Just Took Fawning Over Trump to a Whole New Level of Ridiculous
Mother Jones illustration/Fox News Donald Trump was the oldest person to ever be sworn in as president. Today he’s 73, a handful of years shy of the average life expectancy for American men. In a clip that’s bound to boost his ego, a Fox News contributor on one of his favorite shows this weekend fawned…
Another Miami Herald Bombshell Spotlights Epstein’s Extreme Privileges in Florida Lockup
Jeffrey Epstein appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2008.Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post/AP/File Women’s underwear. Twenty-two tubes of toothpaste. And lots and lots of coffee. These were among the commissary purchases that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein made about a decade ago while serving a 13-month stint in a Palm Beach jail for soliciting…
Mass Shootings Are an American Epidemic. We Are Relentlessly Investigating the Culprits.
Mark Helenowski/John Locher/Mother Jones/AP When twin gun shootings rocked America earlier this month, killing 31 people in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Mother Jones did what Mother Jones does: We marshaled resources and flew a reporter to El Paso, and we connected breaking news trends to our extensive history of investigating this epidemic, the…
Superstorm Sandy Was One of the Worst and Best Things to Happen to Rockaway Beach
People enjoy an afternoon along Rockaway Beach on a hot summer day on August 22, 2017.Spencer Platt/Getty This story was originally published by CityLab and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last year, right before Memorial Day, the business owners of Rockaway Beach got a terrible shock. New York City officials abruptly declared that…
Behold the Biggest, Rarest Butterfly in the World
Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing butterfly.MassimilianoDoria/iStock/Getty This story was originally published by Undark. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s butterflies are under intense pressure from habitat destruction and other environmental threats, with many populations dwindling rapidly and others vanishing before our eyes. One recent study found an estimated 33 percent decline in common butterflies in…