How “Woke Capitalism” Became a Right-Wing Obsession
When the US targeted Russia’s oligarchs after the invasion of Ukraine, the trail of assets kept leading to our own backyard. Not only had our nation become a haven for shady foreign money, but we were also incubating a familiar class of yacht-owning, industry-dominating, resource-extracting billionaires. In the January + February 2024 issue of our magazine, we…
Panama Tried to Close a Hated Mine. Not So Fast, Said Foreign Investors.
A demonstrator holds a sign that reads: “Yes to life, no to the mine,” during a protest against a mining contract between First Quantum Minerals of Canada and Panama’s government over the Cobre Panamá copper mineArnulfo Franco/AP/Canada’s National Observer This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
Is Dumping Twitter Your New Year’s Resolution?
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, people have occasionally asked themselves a question: “Is it okay for me to keep using this thing?” For many users, Musk has made Twitter—or as it is now technically…
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…