Sarah Palin Has Her Eye on a Seat in Congress. She’ll Have to Beat 47 Other Candidates to Get It.
Palin at an Anchorage campaign event on April 20, 2022.Mark Thiessen/ AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Alaska has just one seat in the House of Representatives, and Sarah Palin (she’s back, baby!) wants it. Earlier this spring, when the former…
Climate Denial Group Is Masquerading as a Charity, Critics Say
Charles Koch in 2019. Donors Trust, a fund backed by the Kochs, has given more than $600,000 in recent years to the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s US arm.David Zalubowski/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Global Warming Policy Foundation, a climate skeptic think tank, has been…
Australian Election Results: Revenge of the Barbecued Koalas
Freder/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.It was a koala massacre. Two years ago, Australia’s worst wildfire crisis left an unprecedented number of the country’s cherished wildlife charred or dead, among them tens of thousands of koalas. Photos of our iconic…
The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Expansion Plans Will Be the Death of Us
This investigation was originally published by the Guardian. It is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s biggest fossil fuel firms are quietly planning scores of “carbon bomb” oil and gas projects that would drive the climate past internationally agreed temperature limits with catastrophic global impacts, a Guardian investigation shows. The exclusive…
What Will Brazil Do With Illegally Trafficked American Garbage?
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.This story was produced in collaboration with Columbia Journalism Investigations and UOL. It was republished in partnership with Mother Jones. A green squeegee. A plastic bottle half-filled with neon yellow liquid. Used geriatric diapers. Latex gloves.…
An Oil Train Is Set to Destroy Pristine Utah Mountains. Why Won’t Biden Stop It?
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In the journal from his legendary 1869 expedition down the Colorado River, explorer John Wesley Powell called the remote Tavaputs Plateau in Eastern Utah “one of the stupendous features of this country.” The one-armed Civil War…