Late Payments and Confusion: One Startup’s Struggle to Make Rent Easier
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Like many households over the past year, Jose and his family were being squeezed by rising costs. “Everything is going up,” he said. “The food. The cost of day care.” To free up space in their budget, they turned…
Wildfires in Canada: Fires Are Burning With Greater Destructive Intensity Over Much Longer Seasons
Northern Alberta forest fires comes south to blanket the downtown area in Calgary, Canada.Larry MacDougal/The Canadian Press/AP This article originally appeared in The Globe and Mail. John Vaillant’s latest book is Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast. We weren’t a week into May before 30,000 people had been evacuated because of dozens of fast-moving wildfires in Alberta. Structure…
Trump Indicted Again, Trump Says
Mother Jones; Sean Rayford/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former President Donald Trump wrote on his social media site Thursday that he had been indicted for a second time, this time for taking classified documents with him to Florida when he left office in…
You Can Help Prevent Forest Fires. Yes, Really.
Seth Wenig/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Yesterday, I asked Mother Jones readers how they were handling the wildfire smoke that has blanketed the East Coast. Several readers mentioned that they had moved away from the West in recent years to escape the problem, only for poor…
George Santos’ Lawyer Was Part of the January 6 Mob
Mother Jones; Francis Chung/Politico/AP; Michael M. Santiago/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.George Santos, the lying and indicted GOP congressman from Queens, New York, has steadfastly refused to say where he was on January 6, 2021, while pro-Trump rioters were attacking the US Capitol…
Eric Adams Is Bringing the GOP’s Anti-Immigrant Crusade to New York
Students and parents protest migrants being housed at a school gymnasium.Luiz C. Ribeiro/NY Daily News/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On April 21, during a panel discussion with the mayors of the US four largest cities organized by the African American Mayors Association, New…