Leaked Calls Reveal ALEC’s Secret Plan to Thwart Biden on Climate
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Republican efforts to stall President Joe Biden’s climate agenda are slowly beginning to take shape. In March, a coalition of 12 Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging Biden’s executive order creating a working group to establish a metric for the “social…
This Commercial Fishing Technique Is a Climate Catastrophe
Bottom trawling moves the carbon-rich sediment on the ocean floor, releasing far more carbon than previously thought, a new study has found. Photo by skagman / Wikimedia Commons 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…
Biden Walks Back His Promise of Raising the Refugee Cap
HAMDAYET, SUDAN – DECEMBER 6, 2020: Refugees from the Tigray region of Ethiopia wait to be transferred to a camp with more infrastructure at a UNHCR reception area in the east Sudanese border village of Hamdayet.Byron Smith/Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter…
The GOP Is Raising Money Off Tucker Carlson’s Racism
Richard Drew/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.Recent Republican fundraising efforts have been ugly and, worse, have fueled conspiracy theories, hatred, and demagoguery. Sen. Josh Hawley and Donald Trump have raised millions off the Big Lie…
From Our Archives, When the Left Was Worried It Lost (Again)
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.Each Friday, we bring you a look at our archives to propel you into the weekend. The historian Eric Hobsbawm’s last section of his final book in a series tracing the…
Planes, Trains, and Working Women
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.The carpenters training facility near Pittsburgh looked just like the sort of place where President Joe Biden would roll out a jobs and infrastructure plan. There was the circular saw perched…