SCOTUS v. Pregnant Patients: Idaho’s Abortion Fight Could Blow Up a “Revolutionary” Health Care Law
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what could end up being its most consequential abortion decision since Dobbs. In a case pitting Idaho’s extreme abortion ban against a federal law known as EMTALA—that…
Peaceful protests continue at Emory as tensions over Gaza embroil college campuses
Students march outside the administration building on Emory University’s campus Thursday. Photo contributed by Nora Xu This story was updated at 1:40 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, 2024. The tensions on Emory University’s campus remained high Friday as protesters returned the day after an intense clash between police and demonstrators who supported Palestine and Atlanta’s…
My Week Inside Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment
Pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment at Columbia University on April 26, 2024.Yuki Iwamura/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the early morning, one can hear the birds perched on trees around the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University. Farther off, there are sounds of protest and…
Oklahoma Is Finally Trying to Cut Prison Time for Abused Moms
Kerry King and her kids during a visit at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center Mother Jones; Photo courtesy of King’s family Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their…
Trump’s Happy Birthday Message for Melania Is a Gift for His Haters
Mother Jones; Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he…
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…