Alaska Natives Beg Biden to Halt Massive Oil Project
Inupiat wildlife guide Robert Thompson speaks at a protest near the White House on March 3, 2023.Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Environmental and Indigenous activists rallied outside the White House last Friday, calling on President Joe Biden to reject a…
Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a Saturday afternoon in August 2019, South Dakota Republican state Rep. Fred Deutsch sent an email to 18 anti-trans activists, doctors, and lawyers with the text of a bill he planned to introduce that would make it a felony…
Biden Proposes Raising Taxes on People Making Over $400,000 a Year to Fund Medicare
Patrick Semansky/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a proposal to raise taxes on Americans making more than $400,000 annually in order to continue funding Medicare, marking a new front in the White House’s efforts to position itself as…
A Florida School Board Member Speaks Out About Being Targeted by DeSantis
Mother Jones; Rebecca Blackwell.AP; Photo courtesy of Tom Edwards Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last month, Fox News reported that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had set his sight on 14 school board members across the state whom he wanted to see defeated in the…
Steve Bannon, an Exiled Mogul, and the Ukraine Rescue Effort That (Mostly) Wasn’t
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As Yana Ibragimov and her two young children waited at the Lviv train station, it was snowing. This was March 7, 2022, early in the war in Ukraine. Russian troops were advancing. A day earlier, Russian shells had killed…
Super-Emitting “Methane Bombs” Are a Dire Threat to Humanity
Methane is flared at at a North Dakota oil well pad in May 2021.Matthew Brown/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, mostly from oil and gas…