Think Globally, Build Like Hell Locally
The United States is on the brink of its most consequential transformation since the New Deal. Read more about what it takes to decarbonize the economy, and what stands in the way, here. In March, “Save Lafayette” finally lost a long-running battle to stop a 315-unit housing complex from being built in Lafayette, a small…
The Green Movement’s Best Weapon Has Become a Problem
The United States is on the brink of its most consequential transformation since the New Deal. Read more about what it takes to decarbonize the economy, and what stands in the way, here. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, when runaway development with little study or oversight led to the draining of the Everglades,…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Saga Is a Very Public Example of a National Crisis
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For more than a month, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has been on medical leave, with no indication of when she might return to her powerful seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.…
Sorry California, Melting Snowpacks to Unleash More Epic Floods
A CalTrans pickup truck driving through flooding on Highway 43 in the Central Valley during a winter storm in Tulare County near Allensworth, California.Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Is this the “Big One”? Sometime in January, as a string of “atmospheric rivers” from deep in the South Pacific pummeled California, that query began hitting my phone in…
My Video Responding to Racist Comments Went Viral. Let’s Talk About It.
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The generations-old debate over reparations for the descendants of enslaved Black people has fascinated me for my whole adult life. I’ve been to town halls, film screenings, and public hearings on the topic. Recently, my fascination…
We Need More People Like George Santos in Congress
Patrick Semansky / Associated Prss Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.George Santos, the first-term Republican representative from New York, may go down as the most famous fabulist in the history of Congress. In the run-up to his election last year from a district that…