The Corporate Scramble to Get in Line for Limited Vaccine Supplies is Underway
Boston Globe/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.As the first shipments of the coronavirus vaccine are unpacked from the Styrofoam and dry ice and loaded into hospital freezers, the scramble to secure a place in line…
How Kelly Loeffler’s Firm Facilitated an Enron-Like Scandal
Ben Gray/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.At a debate on Sunday night, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, the Republican vying in one of the two critical January 5 Senate run-offs in Georgia, declared that she has been…
Which Companies Have the Highest Number of Workers on Medicaid and Food Stamps?
Fast-food workers and supporters rally outside a McDonald’s in Detroit in July.Jim West/ZUMA Wire 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.Working for Walmart or McDonald’s has never been particularly lucrative. But a new report shows just how…
Here’s How a Biden Administration Could Push Companies Further on Climate
Offshore oil rig platforms off the coast of Huntington Beach in Orange County, California.Ruaridh Stewart/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.This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk…
Hygiene Theater at Restaurants Is Creating Endless Plastic Waste
Curt Merlo For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Andrea Reusing, a James Beard Award–winning chef, has dozens of decisions to make about how to keep her employees and customers safe when she reopens the patio of Lantern, her popular Chapel Hill, North Carolina, restaurant.…
Meet the Nuns Who Created Their Own Climate Solutions Fund
The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation in Nashville, Tenn.John Russell/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. It’s been five years since Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si,” the celebrated 225-page encyclical in which the…