America Fumbled the Pandemic. Michael Lewis Shows Us How It Happened.
Michael Lewis in the pre-pandemic days.Tabitha Soren Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Fans of the best-selling author Michael Lewis know that his nonfiction books often spring from a deceptively simple question whose pursuit manages to unearth…
Greenhouse Emissions Are Messing With the Stratosphere, a New Study Reveals
NASA/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Humanity’s enormous emissions of greenhouse gases are shrinking the stratosphere, a…
Is Georgia About to Hand Its Universities to a Climate-Denying MAGA Stalwart?
Sonny Perdue with cardboard Trump cutoutTom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Sonny Perdue, Donald Trump’s loyal-till-the-end agriculture secretary, could use a new job. Georgia’s sprawling public university system needs a new chancellor. The University…
Documents Show Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at the Border
A Customs and Border Protection Agent talks to a US activist.Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to…
California Is Headed Toward Another Brutal Wildfire Season
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.A wildfire in Southern California grew to 1,325 acres on Sunday as roughly 1,000 Topanga Canyon residents had to be evacuated from their homes. Just like that, fire…
The Progressive Backlash to Biden’s Foreign Policy Has Only Just Begun
Thousands of activists supporting Palestine converged in New York on Saturday, May 15, 2021. Kavin Hagen/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.When President Joe Biden told reporters last week that Israel, in the midst of a…