Hazing, Fighting, Sexual Assaults: How Valley Forge Military Academy Devolved Into “Lord of the Flies”
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On a chilly evening in September 2020, Jordan Schumacher solemnly patrolled the grounds of Valley Forge Military Academy, near his wit’s end. Weeks earlier, the school’s top brass had elevated the 20-year-old college sophomore to the…
Florida’s Anti-Woke Crusade Has a New Target: Math Textbooks
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) before signing the Parental Rights in Education law, also known as “Don’t Say Gay”Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Florida has a new addition to the long, absurd list of topics it…
The DOJ’s China Initiative Dragnet Is Over. But the Aftereffects Will Be Felt for Years.
Samuel Corum/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Nearly three years ago, a University of Kansas chemistry professor named Feng “Franklin” Tao was arrested and accused of concealing his work for a Chinese university. His arrest “disrupted the transfer of American intellectual…
We All Know Teachers Are Underpaid. But Who Imagined It Was This Bad?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This article was co-published with EdSurge, a nonprofit newsroom that covers the future of learning through original journalism and research. Just before her 16th birthday, Cara Rothrock got her first job working at a 1950s roadside restaurant…
500 Researchers Ask Universities to Reject Fossil-Fuel Cash
Harvard University. Zuma Press. This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Universities must stop accepting funding from fossil fuel companies to conduct climate research, even if the research is aimed at developing green and low-carbon technology, an influential group of distinguished academics has said. Rowan Williams, the…
The US Government Pushed Hundreds of Married Couples Into Disastrous Student Loans
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When the Biden administration made it easier last year for Americans doing public service work to have their student loans forgiven, thousands of borrowers saw their debts reduced or eliminated altogether. But some…