“Independent” Investigations Into Sexual Abuse Are Big Business. Can Survivors Really Trust Them?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Tania Culver Humphrey has spent most of her life grappling with her father’s secrets. In public, her father, Ellsworth Culver, cultivated a reputation as a globetrotting Christian do-gooder. He taught schoolchildren in Cuba, ran missionary programs in the Philippines,…
Researchers Fault Climate Change for 4 Million Deaths Since 2000
Pakistan was lashed by unprecedented monsoon rains in the summer of 2022 that put a third of the country underwater, damaged 2 million homes, and killed more than 1,700 people.AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the early 2000s, as climate denialism was infecting political…
National Prayer Breakfast brings Biden, GOP together for brief reprieve from sniping
President Joe Biden speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli performed inside the U.S. Capitol’s cathedral-like Statuary Hall on Thursday morning for the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual event attended by members of Congress and…
Georgia Senate panel advances bill aimed at making the state even less hospitable to union workers
Pro-labor protesters gather outside the Georgia Capitol Jan. 30, 2024. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder A bill backed by Gov. Brian Kemp aimed at making it more difficult for labor unions to come to Georgia took a step toward becoming law Wednesday, passing through the Senate Insurance and Labor Committee 4-3 on party lines. Brunswick Republican Sen.…
Child tax credit expanded, business tax breaks get new life in bill passed by U.S. House
The U.S. House on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 voted to approve a tax package that would expand the current child tax credit for three years. (Photo of 1040 form by Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve a $78 billion tax package that would expand the child tax credit and…
New York State Passes Law That Could Have Counted Trump’s Actions as Rape
Hans Pennink/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation broadening the state’s definition of rape, eliminating the penile penetration requirement. The bill, “Rape Is Rape,” expands the law to include nonconsensual anal, oral, and vaginal sexual contact. Starting in September,…