Howard Schultz Came Out of Retirement to Destroy Starbucks’ Union—and His Legacy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In November 2021, Victoria Conklin, a 23-year-old shift supervisor at a Starbucks near Buffalo, was talking to Rossann Williams, then the company’s president of North American retail. Workers at three nearby stores had recently petitioned to become the chain’s…
Complaining About Air Travel Is a No-Brainer for Democrats
Tony Williams/CQ Roll Call via ZUMA Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On Wednesday Pennsylvania’s Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman proposed an intriguing new policy idea: What if airlines weren’t so terrible? With non-weather-induced cancellations throwing a big wrench into the summer-vacation…
Bernie Sanders Is Set to Introduce a Resolution to End Arms Sale to Israel
Melina Mara/Pool/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.Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is set to introduce a resolution condemning the United States’ sale of $735 million in weapons to Israel, according to a draft obtained by multiple…
Are Conservative Policies Killing Us?
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.This article was originally published on Undark. Read the original article. In 2013, a research team comprised of some of the nation’s top epidemiologists and demographers compared…
Which Companies Have the Highest Number of Workers on Medicaid and Food Stamps?
Fast-food workers and supporters rally outside a McDonald’s in Detroit in July.Jim West/ZUMA Wire 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.Working for Walmart or McDonald’s has never been particularly lucrative. But a new report shows just how…
We May Not Know the Winner on Election Night. Democrats Stress That’s Ok.
Election workers set up voting booths on Thursday at an early voting site in Orlando, Florida. Early voting in the state begins on Monday.Paul Hennessy/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In a press call on Sunday, Senate Democrats stressed that the best way…