Ralph Nader Would Like to Stop Having to Explain Why the Spoiler Coverage Is Stupid
Frustrated by the two-party system? Polling shows you’re not alone, with more Americans than ever supporting the idea of a third party. But the winner of November’s presidential election will be either Biden or Trump, and voters weighing other candidates need to consider if a protest vote to end the duopoly might instead help end…
America’s 806 Billionaires Are Now Richer Than Half the Population Combined—a Lot Richer
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Are you better off now than you were when Donald Trump was president? That’s a dumb question for Republicans to pose, because the answer by most measures would be, “Oh, heck yes!” But plenty of people…
Utilities Use Customers’ Money to Advance Fossil Fuels. This Coalition Aims to Stop Them.
Protesters gather in front of the American Gas Association to demand that funding from customers’ energy bills not be used to pay for the group’s anti-climate lobbying. Joy Asico-Smith/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A group of advocates and Democratic senators gathered in Washington, DC, on Tuesday…
Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Forbes’ annual list of the 400 richest Americans debuted in 1982 with shipping magnate Daniel Ludwig in the top slot. Ludwig’s wealth, the magazine reported, was $2 billion (about $6.3 billion in today’s dollars). That only 13 billionaires graced the…
Democratic Senators Pressured EPA to Ease Rules on Steel Mill Pollution
Laura Hedien/Getty/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early March, a small group of Democratic senators from the Rust Belt sent President Joe Biden an urgent letter. They began by extolling the benefits of two of the Biden administration’s biggest achievements, the bipartisan infrastructure law and the…
Ruben Gallego’s Battle Against Kari Lake Could Decide the Fate of the Senate—And Our Democracy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. n the afternoon of January 6, 2021, as election deniers armed with Tasers and tomahawks overran the US Capitol, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) handed his colleague and close friend Eric Swalwell a pen. “Here,” he said to the…