Congress Gets a Lesson in How to Self-Manage an Abortion
Renee Bracey Sherman testifies before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.YouTube Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Today, likely for the first time in history, an abortion rights activist explained, step-by-step, how to self-manage an abortion before Congress in an official…
6 Revealing Moments From Our Profile of GOP Senate Candidate Blake Masters
Mother Jones illustration; Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On Monday, Mother Jones published a profile of US Senate candidate Blake Masters, the 35-year-old protégé of PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Masters, who rose from being Thiel’s student at…
Blake Masters Is Peter Thiel’s Dream Candidate—and a Total Nightmare for Democracy
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In the spring of 2012, Blake Masters, who was in his final year at Stanford Law, sat in on a computer science class taught by Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal. During a lecture titled…
Stymied by SCOTUS, the EPA Has Other Climate Options
EPA chief Michael Regan.Associated Press This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On June 30, the Supreme Court decided that the Environmental Protection Agency under President Obama had overstepped its authority by creating the Clean Power Plan that would force the U.S. to transition from coal…
While All Eyes Were on Covid, HIV Researchers Were Making Progress on “The Holy Grail of Vaccines”
Mother Jones illustration; Boston Public Library/Unsplash Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.It’s been an unprecedented two years for science, to put it mildly. We’ve seen a new virus spread across the world, entire cities go on lockdown, a devastating 6 million deaths…
Jim Bopp Wants to Force Pregnant 10-Year-Olds to Give Birth. He’s Also Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Lawyer.
Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Far-right provocateur Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) managed to survive a legal challenge to her re-election bid earlier this year, but the cost was high—literally. According to the Greene campaign’s…