How Unemployment Insurance Fraud Exploded During the Pandemic
A cyclist rides past the U.S. Department building in Washington, D.C.Erin Scott/Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This story was originally published by ProPublica. A Bronx man allegedly received $1.5 million in just ten months. A California real estate broker raked in…
An Anti-Tobacco Hero’s Complicated Legacy
Stanton Glantz at home, clowning with a giant fake cigarette.John Storey/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This article was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Not many scientists have fought harder against smoking than…
Explosive Report Finds Cuomo Sexually Harassed Multiple Women and Retaliated Against at Least One Victim
Spencer Platt/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, many of them young, and in doing so violated federal and state law, the state’s attorney general Letitia James announced Tuesday, concluding a four-month-long investigation…
Can Hard Drives Be Recycled? Google Is Trying to Find Out
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as a part of Climate Desk. At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall…
A Top Georgia High School Has Everything—Except COVID Precautions
Mother Jones illustration; Hendell123/Wikimedia Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Update, August 3, 2021: One of Stacy Efrat’s children has tested positive for COVID-19 after going to a middle school orientation where few attendees wore masks. One blazing hot morning last week, Stacy…
Will This Court Case End the Mining Industry’s 150-Year Dominance of the West?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Early one May morning, I escaped Tucson’s unrelenting grid and drove south through Pima County on Arizona’s state Route 83, into the heart of the Madrean Sky Islands, an almost mythical landscape of shadowy, isolated peaks where…