State schools superintendent eyes revamped funding approach in 2024 Legislature
Superintendent Richard Woods. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder Public schools make up the biggest portion of Georgia’s state budget, so when lawmakers head to Atlanta each January to fund the government and pass new laws, education always has a prominent role. This January could see delivery on efforts to make students living in poverty a priority in…
Supreme Court Finally Adopts a Code of Ethics. But It Has No Teeth.
Charles Dharapak/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it will adopt a first-ever code of ethics, bowing to intense public pressure to do so amid multiple reports of disclosure failures and justices receiving improper gifts. But the move,…
Trump Campaign Defends Nazi-Era “Vermin” Threat With…Another Incendiary Threat
At a Veterans Day rally, Trump called his opponents “vermin”–a term scholars say harkens back to the dark history of the Nazis’ genocidal campaign against Jewish people.Cj Gunther/EFE via ZUMA Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump is once again comparing his political…
Michigan’s New Clean Energy Bill Signals a “Huge Shift”
Michael Brochstein/Zuma This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Michigan is set to become the third state in the Midwest and twelfth in the country to require a shift to clean electricity. Of all those states, Michigan is one of the most ambitious because of the extent…
Progressive Facebook Moms’ Groups Are Melting Down Over the Israel-Hamas War
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The uproar in the Facebook moms’ group started innocently enough, with two posts about upcoming rallies, one for Israel and the other for Palestine. Najla August, one of three moderators for the group of 12,000 in Ann Arbor, Michigan,…
How Gilded Age Lawmakers Saved America From Plutocracy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On December 3, 1901, in his first annual message to Congress, Teddy Roosevelt began to articulate the new anti-monopoly doctrine that would define his presidency. “Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions,” he…