Senators Just Did the Rich Another Favor
Mother Jones; Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved a retirement bill called the Enhancing American Retirement Now Act (EARN). That’s the Senate version of a package nicknamed SECURE 2.0, which sailed through the…
This Research Explains Why Equality in America Is So Elusive
Francescoch/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In an old Eastern European fable, God appears before an impoverished peasant named Vladimir and offers to grant him one wish—anything he wants. Vladimir is thrilled. But then God adds a caveat: Whatever he grants…
The Ivy League’s Reckoning With Slavery Is Long Overdue
A 1764 engraving of Princeton’s Nassau Hall (left) and President’s House, where the enslaved servants of a deceased campus president were to be auctioned off in 1766.Henry Dawkins/Princeton University Archives Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In a report released on Tuesday,…
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…
After 30 Years of Taking Their Money, It May Be Too Late for the West to Get Putin’s Oligarchs
Grace Molteni/Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has put the issue of international corruption front and center, sparking conversations and regulatory changes that policymakers in Washington and European capitals had put aside for decades. But…
Working in the Service Industry Always Sucked. During a Pandemic, It’s Unbearable.
In our January + February 2022 cover story, we attempted to answer a simple question: What the hell happened to labor since the pandemic began? It wasn’t one thing. But this package—through a series of worker stories as told in their own voices, interviews with experts, and dissections of media narratives—attempts to make sense of the…