Spending by G7 Nations Favors Fossil Fuel Interests Over Green Energy
Steve Parsons/PA Wire/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 story was originally published by the Guardian and reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The nations that make up the G7 have pumped billions of…
How Inflation Became the Gasbags’ Favorite Moral Panic
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.Well into the 19th century, the word “inflation” referred mostly to bodily phenomena. It meant an enlargement of hot air in your stomach, a cancerous growth, a swollen organ, an imminent…
Cutting Off Unemployment Insurance Bonus Will Disproportionately Hurt People of Color
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, one of the first Republican governors to announce he was cutting off pandemic-era unemployment insurance.Rogelio V. Solis/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.Republican governors’ newest form of economic stimulus is anti-stimulus: cutting…
Elizabeth Warren Wants Joe Biden to Go Bigger on Child Care
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, (D-Mass.) conducts a news conference outside the Capitol to reintroduce the Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call 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.When Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) ran for…
How PPP Loan Distribution Became the New Redlining
A Philadelphia street in May 2020.Matt Rourke/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.The Paycheck Protection Program was supposed to help small businesses struggling from the crippling financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic. But the benefits, as…
The Black Farmer Movement Battling History to Return to the Land
Tahz Walker stands on land that he and others own communally as part of Earthseed Land Collective in Durham, North Carolina on March 14, 2021. Walker and his partner Cristina Rivera-Chapman run Tierra Negra Farm which provides produce for farm shares as well as fresh vegetables to communities in downtown Durham.Madeline Gray Let our journalists…