Republican Lawmakers to Oil CEOs: Stop Apologizing and Keep the Fossil Fuels Coming
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, attends a House Energy and Commerce Committee markup in 2021. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press This story was originally published by the HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Executives from six major oil and gas companies testified during a congressional hearing this past week as gasoline prices neared record…
The DOJ’s China Initiative Dragnet Is Over. But the Aftereffects Will Be Felt for Years.
Samuel Corum/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Nearly three years ago, a University of Kansas chemistry professor named Feng “Franklin” Tao was arrested and accused of concealing his work for a Chinese university. His arrest “disrupted the transfer of American intellectual…
Alabama Legislature Approves Extreme Anti-Trans Bill Criminalizing Gender-Affirming Care
Elijah Baay speaks at the #LoveALTransYouth Press Conference in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 30, 2021.Andrea Mabry/AP/Human Rights Campaign Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On Thursday, Alabama legislators approved one of the most draconian anti-trans bills in the country seeking to criminalize gender-affirming…
I Work With Refugees. After Fleeing Irpin, I’m Now Displaced Myself.
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In 2018, my partner and I—she is Ukrainian, I am American—put together a Google spreadsheet called “Home – Kyiv.” I was due to finish a mission with a humanitarian organization in western Africa and planned to…
NY AG Asks Judge to Hold Donald Trump in Contempt for Failing to Turn Over Documents
AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.New York Attorney General Letitia James appears to be at the end of her rope with Donald Trump’s legal delay tactics, asking a judge on Thursday to hold the former president…
Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes History and Becomes the First Black Woman on Supreme Court
President Joe Biden congratulates Ketanji Brown Jackson moments after the U.S. Senate confirmed her to be the first Black woman to be a justice on the Supreme Court.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The Senate voted 53–47 today to confirm…