G20 Ministers Get Behind a Global Wealth Tax on Billionaires
Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad, left, with colleagues at a recent G20 news conference.Jose Luis Magana/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2 percent tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise about $313 billion a year for the global fight…
Georgia Power plan to leave coal ash in groundwater could be upended by new EPA rule
Protesters outside a 2019 Georgia Public Service Commission meeting called for state regulators to reject the utility’s request to make ratepayers pick up the tab for coal ash cleanup. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday the final adoption of rules aimed at significantly reducing fossil fuel power plant pollution across…
Trump Denies the Affairs at the Heart of the Hush-Money Case. Almost No One Believes Him.
Mother Jones illustration; Glenn Francis/Wikimedia; Elizabeth Williams/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump is on trial in Manhattan facing 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of another crime: conspiring to influence the 2016 election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg argues that,…
Samuel Alito Has a Very Strange Theory for How to Protect Democracy
Mother Jones; Cliff Owen/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, the Supreme Court held oral arguments over former President Donald Trump’s claims that he enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for engaging in what he contends were his official duties while in office.…
The GOP’s “Election Integrity” Lawyer Was Just Indicted for Election Subversion
Christina Bobb, right, interviews fellow election denier Kari Lake at a 2022 rally.Gage Skidmore/Flickr Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The attorney running the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity” effort has been criminally charged by the state of Arizona for her efforts to help Donald…
Students Are Demanding Universities Divest From Israel—and Dirty Energy
Milo Hess/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, the Guardian has learned. The students from Columbia University, Tulane University, and the University of Virginia each wrote…