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The Race to Save the Great Salt Lake

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Water is life. It’s also big business. In our November + December 2023 issue, Mother Jones dives into the West’s deepening water crisis—and the forces behind it, from historic drought to short-sighted policies to corrupt lawmakers and the special…

How Telegram Became the Center of the Internet

Mother Jones; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Every so often, the spiritual center of the internet shifts, as the locus where online culture is shaped and incubated before rippling out into the wider world cycles to a new home. Today, that shift is…

Don’t Call Elon Musk a “Green” Billionaire

Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Elon Musk was once lauded as a sort of green Tony Stark—the genius inventor who leads a double life as superhero Iron Man—for single-handedly tackling the climate crisis one Tesla at a time, helping to forge a clean energy…

GM Contract Will Protect EV Workers, Paving Way for Green Transition

Members of the United Auto Workers rallied and then marched past General Motors headquarters in Michigsn in support of the UAW’s strike against Ford, Stellantis, and GM. Jim West/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Workers at General Motors’ electric vehicle battery manufacturing facilities will be…