Disabled Mississippians Now Face Even More Hurdles in Voting
Tiffany Tertipes/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This November, Mississippians will elect the next or reelect the current governor, but new restrictions on absentee ballots may restrict some disabled people from being able to vote. On March 22, incumbent Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican,…
House Republicans’ Work Requirements “Are Not About Work”
A volunteer at a mobile food pantry distribution site in Salt Lake City, Utah, last December. Rick Bowmer/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Princeton sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond’s latest book, the New York Times best-seller Poverty, By America, explores why poverty…
How the Clarence Thomas Scandals Explain His Right-Wing Rulings
Mother Jones; Alex Wong/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“Live through Jim Crow, so you can live off of Harlan Crow.” That’s how MoJo’s Garrison Hayes archly summarizes the hypocrisies of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in light of recent blockbuster revelations that he…
We’ve Got What It Takes to End Poverty in America
Unemployed men line up for free food in Chicago, circa 1931.Photo12/Universal Images Group/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Matthew Desmond, the 43-year-old Princeton sociologist whose last book, Evicted, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is back with another one, Poverty, by America,…
Treasury Department Study: White People Get 90 Percent of the Benefits of Many Tax Breaks
Patrick Sison/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One of the little-noticed moves by President Biden in his first days in office was an executive order that required federal agencies to examine their policies and programs to identify whether and how they perpetuate barriers to…
Are Police Helicopter Fleets Worth the Money?
Beni Benitez stands outside of his home in South Los Angeles, a neighborhood a few miles south of the Los Angeles Police Department’s helicopter landing site.Isabel Avila Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This piece was published originally by Capital & Main. Los Angeles’ police and sheriff’s departments…