House Republicans Are Playing Debt-Ceiling Russian Roulette
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks with reporters about the Republican debt-ceiling plan.Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Are House Republicans, if you’ll pardon the expression, peeing in their own Jacuzzi? I raise this question because some of the spending cuts…
Sen. John Fetterman Is Going Back to Work
Francis Chung/Politico via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On February 16, John Fetterman, the first-term Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to receive treatment for depression. Fetterman, who defeated Republican Mehmet Oz in one of last…
Actually, Former Presidents Do Get Indicted—and Not Just in “Banana Republics”
France’s Nicolas Sarkozy (left) and Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, seen here in 2009, were two former premiers charged with and convicted of crimes.Soeren Stache/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Almost immediately after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that he had indicted ex-president Donald Trump,…
How a Weapon of War Has Worsened the Mass Shootings Epidemic
Mother Jones; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It was a grim but not terribly surprising coincidence. Last Monday morning, just a few hours after the Washington Post published a new series on the popular semiautomatic rifles known as AR-15s, a suicidal 28-year-old used…
The Government Subsidizes Electric Vehicles. Why Not E-Bikes?
Ivan Pantic/Getty This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Two years ago, US Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Jimmy Panetta introduced the Electric Bicycle Incentive Kickstart for the Environment Act, or the EBIKE Act, which proposed giving Americans up to $1,500 off the price of a new e-bike. The…
We’ve Got What It Takes to End Poverty in America
Unemployed men line up for free food in Chicago, circa 1931.Photo12/Universal Images Group/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Matthew Desmond, the 43-year-old Princeton sociologist whose last book, Evicted, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is back with another one, Poverty, by America,…