San Francisco Janitors Are On Strike for COVID Safety—And the Fight Doesn’t End There
Thousands of SEIU custodial workers stage a strike in Philadelphia in 2019. Cory Clark/ AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.More than 700 San Francisco janitors represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) walked off…
The Elusive Dream of the Driverless Car
Autonomous vehicles race in the California desert as part of the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) challenge in 2004. David McNew/ Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Undark and is…
The Texas Fiasco Makes the Case for Creating a National Power Grid
Ralph Lauer/ Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.You could point fingers in several directions for the outages that stemmed from last week’s polar vortex obliteration of the Texas power grid. You can’t rightly blame Earth for…
Hey Siri—Why Don’t You Understand More People Like Me?
Timo Lenzen Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Every evening last summer, after I’d shut down my work laptop, my 3-year-old daughter and I would approach our Google Home smart speaker and yell, “Hey Google, can you…
Inside Ikea’s Ambitious Plan To Make Cheap Furniture Last Forever
(Illustration: Rebecca Zisser/Huffpost; Photos: Getty, Ikea) Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This article was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Ikea store in Queens, New York,…
Lawmakers Who Attended the President’s Pre-Riot Rally Are Going to Feel Fundraising Pain
Rep. Madison Cawthorn speaks to Trump supporters from the Ellipse at the White House in Washington.Bill Clark/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Before a mob stormed the Capitol on January 6, Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks stood…