Judge rules True the Vote’s 2020 mass voter challenges don’t amount to illegal intimidation
In the lead up to Georgia’s 2021 U.S. Senate runoff elections, which would determine Senate control, the conservative activist group True the Vote announced that it would challenge the eligibility of 364,000 Georgia voters, drawing a voter intimidation lawsuit. John McCosh/Georgia Recorder A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Texas group’s campaign to challenge the…
What Claudine Gay’s Resignation From Harvard Means for the Rest of Us
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay. Michael Brochstein/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Claudine Gay’s resignation from her post as president of Harvard University is a shocking new twist in the ongoing saga over campus free speech. Gay resigned on Tuesday amid new allegations of plagiarism…
Happy New Year: A Bunch of Minimum Wage Increases Just Took Effect
Since 2012, the “Fight for 15” Movement has helped push more than a dozen states to adopt a path to a $15 or higher minimum wage.David Santiago/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Workers across the country are kicking off the new…
Your Utility Bills May Be Funding the Gas Lobby
Marijan Murat/dpa/Zuma This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The winter between 1917 and 1918 was a trying one for the gas industry. That year, household gas leaks had reportedly killed more than 300 New Yorkers—due to their own carelessness, the gas companies argued. But not everyone…
Excessive Heat and Air Pollution Are Putting Farmworkers’ Lives at Risk
Gosia Wozniacka/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For most of July 2019, stifling heat hung over the agricultural fields of California’s Central Valley, as farmworkers like William Salas Jiminez labored under the sun’s searing rays. Temperatures had dipped from 99 to 95 degrees…
A ‘chaotic’ January? Congress faces two shutdown deadlines with no action yet on spending
The spending stalemate has aggravated both Democrats and Republicans on the Senate and House Appropriations committees, who say leadership needs to give them the green light to begin talks ahead of the Jan. 19 deadline to enact four spending bills and the Feb. 2 deadline for the other eight appropriations measures. Shown is the U.S.…