These Billionaires Want to Disrupt Death—and Keep Their Fortunes Forever
Tara Jacoby Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When the US targeted Russia’s oligarchs after the invasion of Ukraine, the trail of assets kept leading to our own backyard. Not only had our nation become a haven for shady foreign money, but we were also…
Latest Must-Have for America’s Ultra-Billionaires: A Plan to Save Humanity
Hundred-billionaires Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos. Julian Stähle/picture alliance/Getty (Musk); Getty (Gates); Stephen J. Cohen/WireImage/Getty (Bezos) 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.This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as…
How Can Jeff Bezos Spend $10 Billion Fighting Climate Change? We Have a Few Ideas.
Ted S. Warren/AP This story originally ran in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. On Monday, Amazon CEO and world’s richest human Jeff Bezos announced he was pledging nearly 8 percent of his net worth to fight climate change. This money, known as the Bezos Earth Fund, will be used to support…