Are Schools’ Fancy New Air-Scrubbing Devices Really Effective—and Safe?
picture alliance/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.For months, we’ve known that the coronavirus spreads via airborne droplets, invisible molecules or globules of liquid that fall or hang suspended in the air whenever we exhale, talk,…
Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to the Company’s Business
People look on as smoke rises on the Syrian side of the border in Hassa, near Hatay, southern Turkey, on January 28, 2018, as Turkish jet fighters hit People’s Protection Units (YPG) positions.Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap…
Republicans Are Trying to Kill What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act
Mother Jones illustration; 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.In 2013, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion gutting Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required that states with a long history…
1 in 4 Black and Latino Families Were Underwater Even Before the Pandemic Hit
A crowd protests evictions carried out by law enforcement.Angela Weiss/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.Most Americans get that our nation’s wealth distribution skews toward the rich, yet few seem to fully grasp how gaping the…
Developers Aim to Halt Local Push Toward Climate-Friendly Building Codes
A construction site in New York CityMunoz Alvarez/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 originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Kim Havey had a problem. Minneapolis was…
Trump Was a Disaster for Wildlife. Here Are 5 Things Biden’s Interior Secretary Can Do to Help.
The Trump administration delisted the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act last year.hkuchera/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.As president, Donald Trump’s record on protecting imperiled plants and animals was, in a word, abysmal. His…