In the Middle of an HIV Crisis, West Virginia Advances New Limits to Clean Needle Access
A needle disposal box in Huntington, West Virginia.Ricky Carioti/Washington Post via Getty 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.West Virginia, long an epicenter of the national opioid epidemic, is currently in the middle of an HIV outbreak.…
HIV Is On the Loose In West Virginia, and so Is a Moral Panic About Needle Exchanges
Mother Jones illustration; Getty 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.It had all the trappings of a full-blown drug bust: confidential informants, undercover cops wearing wires, detectives surveilling the scene. In their report, police in Charleston, West…
Hope and Fear: Inside the Race between Vaccines and Variants
A woman draws red hearts representing individual coronavirus deaths onto the newly-unveiled National Covid Memorial Wall opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, England, on March 30, 2021. David Cliff/NurPhoto/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.Earlier…
The Best Way to Protect Abortion Rights Right Now Is to End a Racist, Classist Federal Budget Amendment
Elijah Nouvelage/Getty 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.Abortion advocates are finally on the offensive. Having barely made it through the last four years with Roe intact, the groups battling to protect the right to abortion can now,…
In Brazil, We Thought We Had Been Through the Worst. Somehow the Worst Is Yet to Come.
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 first metallic bang echoes a few minutes before 8:30 p.m. Every night of every week, one neighbor from across the street summons the rest of us—not to cheer for health…
The War on Trans Kids Is Coming for Dr. Izzy Lowell
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.Three years ago, when Marshall was 13 years old, he asked his mom if she would buy him a binder for his upcoming seventh grade graduation. She asked what he needed—three-ring?…