The IRA Gives USPS Billions to Buy Electric Vehicles
This Grumman ‘Long Life Vehicles’ is not long for this world.Mark Hertzberg/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden signed into law this week, includes a windfall for the United States Postal Service: $1.29 billion for the purchase of…
Fast-Food Workers Are Closing In on a Major Victory in California
McDonald’s employee Nidia Torres (right) speaks at a rally of fast-food workers and supporters for passage of AB 257, a fast-food worker health and safety bill, on April 16, 2021, in Los Angeles.Mario Tama/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Mysheka Ronquillo usually gets up…
There’s No Need to Feel Conflicted About Liz Cheney
Jae C. Hong/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.I’m hardly a sucker for Liz Cheney. She and father Dick led the United States into a strategically disastrous war in the Middle East on the basis of lies and misrepresentations. It was one of the…
Here’s the Whole Transcript of That Leaked Steve Bannon Tape, Annotated
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Halloween 2020 meeting in which Steve Bannon explained that Donald Trump planned to declare victory on election night, regardless of the actual results, was not supposed to be a big deal. The gathering was intended for Bannon to…
Abortion Opponents Don’t Want You to Read News About Abortion
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Now that Roe v. Wade has been repealed by the Supreme Court, abortion opponents are aiming at a new target: those who share information about abortion. This push might put us at Mother Jones, a 46-year-old reader-supported…
An Explosive New Report Could Upend More than a Decade of Alzheimer’s Research. How Did This Happen?
Mother Jones illustration; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.More than 15 years ago, researchers at the University of Minnesota announced they had made a breakthrough: When they purified a protein from the brains of genetically modified mice and injected it into rats, it…