If House Republicans Get Their Way, Rural Americans Are Screwed
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back in 2016, the Republican Party won the presidency and both chambers of Congress with strong support in rural areas, particularly among farmers. But since that triumph, the Grand Old Party hasn’t exactly been a champion of rural interests. As I’ve written in recent months,…
Republicans Want to Throw the Book at Colorado Teachers Getting Ready to Strike
Teachers hold placards during a rally outside the state Capitol, Monday, April 16, 2018, in Denver.David Zalubowski/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a week before thousands of Colorado teachers are expected to descend on the state capitol to rally for better pay and protest potential retirement benefit cuts, two Republican…
Puerto Rico, Still Reeling from Hurricane Maria, Is Hit by an Island-Wide Blackout
Ricardo Arduengo via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Puerto Rico’s power grid collapsed again on Wednesday, according to multiple reports. The grid has been unstable since Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September. In the town where the storm made landfall, just 35 percent of residents had power…
California’s Housing Crisis Is So Bad, Families Are Squatting Abandoned Homes Just to Survive
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When I ask Christine Hernandez, a mother of four, slender in stature and bold in manner, how best to scout for abandoned homes—the bleak dwellings with the boarded-up windows and ripped-out drywall, their innards packed with leftover syringes, rotting debris, and the peculiar loot of…
“You Need to Calm Down” and Other Degrading B.S. Women Hear from Doctors
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the early 1960s, researchers noticed that women seemed to have lower rates of heart disease than men—but only until menopause, when women’s estrogen levels dropped. At that point, their levels were similar. To get to the bottom of the discrepancy, they set up the first-ever…
California Has a Controversial Plan to Solve Its Housing Crisis. Drivers Aren’t Going to Like It.
tommaso79/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The San Francisco-Bay Area did a remarkable job of rebounding from the 2008 Recession: The region has since added 640,000 new jobs, and its unemployment rate hovers around three percent. But as you’ve probably heard, the area’s housing supply hasn’t kept up with its population growth,…