The House Passed It, Americans Want It: Why Is Legal Weed Still a Long Shot?
Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Zuma Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Most Americans think it’s time to legalize weed. A whopping 91 percent of our Republic says that marijuana should be allowed for medical use, according to the Pew Research Center, and nearly…
Hungary’s Authoritarian Leader Might Be Reelected This Weekend
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In the first parliamentary election in a European country since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Hungarian voters on Sunday will choose between liberal and illiberal democracy, between Peter Marki-Zay, the opposition-coalition-supported mayor of a provincial town, and…
Amazon Labor Union Wins Historic Election at New York City Warehouse
Workers at the Staten Island facility march during a March, 2020 protest.Spencer Platt/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island is set to become Amazon’s only unionized worksite in the United States. On Friday, the National Labor…
Russia’s Neighbors Look at Putin and Ask “Who’s Next?”
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Aapo and Konsta, 22-year old university students from northeastern Finland, were basking on the long, wide stairs in front of the white and green-domed Helsinki Cathedral. They had wandered down to Senate Square on Saturday, March…
Another Billionaire Tax Bites the Dust
Sen. Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia.Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Press Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Another day, another foiled billionaire tax. Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin wasted little time signaling his lack of support for Joe Biden’s new proposal to tax the richest of…
Biden Expected to End Covid Border Policy Aimed at Keeping Out Refugees
Asylum seekers turned themselves in to Border Patrol, near the USA/Mexico border wall in Yuma, Arizona, United States on February 22, 2022 .Katie McTiernan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.President Biden and the Centers for Disease Control and…