“Things Are Moving So Quickly” as Scientists Study This “Very Scary” Climate Strategy
This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2006, a group of preeminent scientists met for a two-day conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to discuss cooling the Earth by injecting particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight into space. At some point,…
Why the Supreme Court Blew Up the Purdue Opioid Settlement
Signs in the shape of headstones, with information on people who died from using OxyContin, line a security fence outside the Supreme Court Monday, Dec. 4, 2023.Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that members of the…
The Government Broke Its Promise to Freed People. There’s a Price to Pay.
Andrea Levy (right) from Queens, New York, at a 2002 rally in DC for slavery reparations.Manny Ceneta/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Fourteen trillion dollars. That’s the total amount of money that the federal government owes to Black people in America for…
Democrats reel from ‘terrible’ Biden debate performance as he defends candidacy
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden dropped by a Waffle House in Atlanta to pick up food shortly after midnight following his debate with Donald Trump on Thursday, June 27, 2024. He told reporters “I think we did well” when asked about his debate performance. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden…
Supreme Court Limits Obstruction Charges Against January 6 Attackers
Mother Jones; Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Justice Department had improperly wielded a federal obstruction law in prosecuting hundreds of people for their roles in the January 6 attack on Congress.…
Supreme Court Conservatives Just Dealt a Massive Blow to the Administrative State
Herring being unloaded from a fishing boat in Rockland, MaineRobert F. Bukaty/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In one of the most highly anticipated decisions this term, the Supreme Court overturned a 40-year-old legal doctrine, so-called “Chevron deference,” under which judges had been expected…