Robinhood Promises Free Trades. Did Alex Kearns Pay With His Life?
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.Bill Brewster was sitting around a campfire with family on a Wisconsin vacation in June 2020 when he got the call. It was Dorothy Kearns, the mother of his cousin Alex.…
Climate Nothingburger Shows Republicans Need “a New PR Agency”
Brendan Fitterer/ Tampa Bay Times/ 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. At a major summit hosted by Joe Biden last week, a procession…
The Top 11 Climate Actions of Joe Biden’s First 100 Days
President Biden at last week’s virtual Leaders Summit on Climate. Anna Moneymaker/CNP/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.President Joe Biden took over at a moment of existential threat, when the long-term ability of humans to thrive…
Joe Biden Rolls Out the Sleepy New Deal
Jim Watson/Pool/AFP 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.In his Wednesday night address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden made a quiet but sustained case for a different sort of American economy. He called…
Joe Biden Calls on the People Who Attacked Democracy to Help Him Protect It
Andrew Harnik/AP/Pool 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.In a speech to a socially distanced joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden, on the eve of his 100th day in office, called on legislators to “prove that…
The Organizer of a Series of Trump Boat Rallies Shouted “White Power” While Celebrating at the First
Boats at Tampa’s Trumparilla event.Ivy Ceballo/Tampa Bay Times/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.Unless you’re from a certain slice of Florida—the Gulf Coast side near Tampa—you’ve probably never heard of Gasparilla, the city’s annual and well-attended…