After Pressure From Borrowers, Biden Is Poised to Deliver Even More Student Debt Relief
Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2006, Congress ended a controversial program that allowed married couples to combine their student debts into a joint loan. No new spousal consolidation loans were originated after that, but the borrowers who had previously combined their…
The Super-Rich Are Already Plotting Their Escape From Trumpism
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This is not a time of optimism in America. People are reeling from inflation, gun violence, partisan rancor, race-baiting, a ruthlessly divisive Supreme Court decision, the long tail of a pandemic, and the very real prospect…
Fossil-Fuel Boosters Have Criminalized Climate Protests Across America
Raymond Kingfisher and other Indigenous foes of the Dakota Access Pipeline rally in Washington, DC, in March 2017.Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wir This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republican-led legislatures have passed anti-protest laws drafted by an extreme right corporate lobbying group in a third of all…
Marjorie Taylor Greene Shows Up to Celebrate Vocational School She Won’t Support in Congress
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., waves at supporters as she arrives to speak ahead of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Here’s the latest installment of Republicans showing up for photo ops…
National Anger Over the Removal of Abortion Rights Is Catching Up to the GOP
A poster of former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at a rally for abortion rights at the capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, in July Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this year, Democrats were preparing to kiss…
Liz Cheney Was Defeated By the Extremist Movement She Helped to Empower
Mother Jones illustration; Drew Angerer/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the run-up to the 2016 election, Liz Cheney issued a dire warning. The future of American democracy, and the nation’s place as a symbol of freedom to the world, was on the ballot.…