Science Confirms That When White People Read About Covid Racial Disparities, They Respond Selfishly
Mother Jones illustration; Sindy Sussengut/Unsplash; Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.At Mother Jones, stories about Covid’s disparate impacts have been at the core of our pandemic coverage. Back in April 2020, my colleagues Edwin Rios and Sinduja Rangarajan, for example,…
Kentucky Just Became the First State to Effectively Ban All Abortions
State Rep. Randy Bridges (R-Paducah) gives a thumbs down as protesters chant “Bans off our bodies” at the Kentucky state Capitol.Ryan C. Hermens/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The only two abortion clinics in Kentucky have been forced to shut down,…
Russia’s New Motto: “We Are Not Ashamed”
Editor’s note: This essay’s author is anonymous to protect the writer from potential reprisals. There are relatives with whom one must talk because one is obligated to do so, and undeclared wars make this especially tedious. Some won’t be bothered to discuss “politics” because they think the “special military operation” is not really that big…
Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Is Removed From North Carolina Voter Rolls
Patrick Semansky/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has been removed from the North Carolina voter rolls amid an ongoing investigation to determine whether he committed voter fraud in the 2020 election. “The Macon County…
Sure, Jason Ravnsborg Was Impeached. He Still Got Away With Killing Someone.
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On Tuesday, the South Dakota house of representatives impeached the state’s Republican attorney general, Jason Ravnsborg, for killing a 55-year-old pedestrian with his Ford Taurus in September 2020. Ravnsborg paid a small fine…
The White House Just Launched a Huge Conservation Initiative
Andrew Lichtenstein/Contributor/Getty This story was originally published by the HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Biden administration has launched a $1 billion program to advance its goal of conserving 30% of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030. The program, called the America the Beautiful Challenge, will serve as a “one-stop-shop” for states, tribes, territories,…