Starbucks Called Its Flagship Stores a Metaphor for the Company. Now They’re Trying to Unionize.
Baristas working at the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in New York on its opening day in 2018.Richard B. Levine/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The Starbucks Roastery in Manhattan exists because Starbucks founder Howard Schultz wanted to build a Willy Wonka-inspired coffee factory. The…
Kamala Harris Promises “Unprecedented” Sanctions If Russia Invades Ukraine
US Vice President Kamala Harris with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on SaturdayAndrew Harnik/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In an address to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris said that the attendees had convened amid the most “dire…
Michigan Republicans Were Asked About a Landmark Contraception Case. Their Answers Were “Terrifying.”
Protesters at a 2015 demonstration outside the Supreme CourtCharles Dharapak/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The final question from the audience at Friday night’s debate for the Republican candidates for Michigan attorney general was as straightforward as it gets: “How do each…
Kim Potter, Ex-Cop Who Killed Daunte Wright, Given 16-Month Sentence
Daunte Wright’s parents Arbuey and Katie react after Kim Potter’s sentencing Friday. Nicole Neri/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This morning a Hennepin County judge sentenced Kim Potter—the police officer who shot and killed a 20-year old Black man named Daunte Wright last…
Confirmed: Trump Really Did Take Classified Documents to Mar-a-Lago
Oliver Contreras/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The National Archives confirmed on Friday that classified national security records were found in the 15 boxes former President Donald Trump had improperly brought with him to Mar-a-Lago. This, once again, raises serious questions about…
Meet the Know-Nothing MAGA Stalwart About to Take Over Georgia’s Universities
Mother Jones illustration; Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA/AP, Tomasso DeRosa/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last year, fresh from serving a full term as the Secretary of Agriculture during the Trump administration, Sonny Perdue began angling for another plum post: leadership of the University…