How Rich Investors, Not Doctors, Profit From Marking Up ER Bills
JazzIRT/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. In 2017, TeamHealth, the nation’s largest staffing firm for ER…
Amazon VP Quits in Protest, Highlighting Big Tech’s Firings of Minority, Women, and LGBTQ Labor Activists
A worker protests labor conditions outside of an Amazon warehouse on May 1, 2020, in Staten Island. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Monday, Tim Bray, an Amazon vice president, wrote a scathing letter announcing he was leaving the company over its “chickenshit” decision to terminate…
Trump’s Energy Department Recommends Throwing Money at Uranium Mines
Signs on the gates of an abandoned uranium mine in Red Water Pond, Navajo Nation. Washington Post/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Thursday morning, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced “an array of policy options to restore America’s leadership in nuclear energy” by reducing the nation’s dependence…
The COVID Relief Bill Set Aside $8 Billion for Native Tribes. Corporations Could Get Half.
An Arizona National Guard helicopter takes off to deliver medical supplies to the remote Navajo Nation on March 31, 2020.Ross D. Franklin/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.During a Friday morning virtual town hall about coronavirus in Native American communities, Jonathan Nez, president of the Navajo Nation,…
Hours After Doubting the Need for 40,000 Ventilators, Trump Demanded 40,000 Ventilators
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus on March 25, 2020.Alex Brandon/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.With almost half of US novel coronavirus deaths in New York City and 44,000 people already infected there, Governor Andrew Cuomo asked the federal government for 30,000 ventilators on Tuesday…
Facebook Just Revealed Its Secret Strategy for Taking Down Hate Groups
Josh Edelson/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The members of Northwest Front have been called the “worst racists” in America, amid stiff competition. On Wednesday, Facebook told Mother Jones that it had used a new enforcement strategy to take down a network of Northwest Front accounts…