Climate Disasters Are Leaving Some Poor Nations in a Crushing Cycle of Debt
A destroyed home in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian.Roger Edelman/ZUMA This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new UN report sheds light on how climate change is driving some climate-vulnerable nations deeper into debt, locking them into unsustainable cycles of economic crisis and hampering their governments’…
What if Everything We Are Told to Think About Periods Is Wrong?
Mother Jones; Talia Herman Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Periods are an undeniable part of most women’s lives, but for the bulk of history, science has only really cared about women’s reproductive tracts for one reason: “improving pregnancy outcomes,” writes Jen Gunter in her…
In 2023, Los Angeles Was on Strike
This story is a collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Magnum Foundation. We asked photographers to show us the paradox of today’s labor movement. Even as the popularity of unions has grown over the last decade, actual membership has continued to decline. Can new enthusiasm revitalize American labor? Read about this unique moment…
Bad Jobs Often Follow a Prison Sentence. They Want to Change That.
This story is a collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Magnum Foundation. We asked photographers to show us the paradox of today’s labor movement. Even as the popularity of unions has grown over the last decade, actual membership has continued to decline. Can new enthusiasm revitalize American labor? Read about this unique moment…
U.S. Senate sends Biden giant spending package hours before midnight deadline
President Joe Biden is expected to sign into law a package of six bills that cleared Congress on Friday, March 8, 2024. The bills are just part of the equation Congress must solve before the next funding deadline of March 22, when another six bills, which are much more challenging and include a higher price…
Georgia House Minority Leader announces he won’t stand for reelection
House Minority Leader James Beverly announced his retirement on March 8, the final day of qualifying for the 2024 election that will include his Macon district among the 236 legislative seats. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder (file) House Minority Leader James Beverly, a steady voice for Democrats at the GOP-controlled state Capitol, has announced that he will…