Another Billionaire Tax Bites the Dust
Sen. Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia.Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Press Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Another day, another foiled billionaire tax. Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin wasted little time signaling his lack of support for Joe Biden’s new proposal to tax the richest of…
Amid Union Drive, Howard Schultz Is Back in Charge of Starbucks
Starbucks founder Howard Schultz at Arizona State University in 2019.Brian Cahn/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When companies are flailing, the founder comes back. It’s happened at Apple, at Tinder, and at Twitter. Now Starbucks is joining the list. On Wednesday, the…
Silicon Valley’s New Promise: Your Snacks Delivered “Faster Than 911”
The tech world’s idea of a bodega: A covered up storefront where workers do the shopping.G. Ronald Lopez/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.You live in San Francisco and don’t want to go outside, but the shelves are bare. No milk. No Katz’s…
Biden’s Fresh Pitch for Prosperity: Fund My Agenda, Dammit
Shawn Thew/Pool/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As I described earlier this evening, the first section of President Joe Biden’s speech tonight, in which he forcefully rebuked Vladimir Putin, generated some bipartisan support from a bitterly divided Congress. But as Biden moved…
REI Calls Itself a Co-op. But That Doesn’t Mean It’s Worker-Friendly.
The SoHo REI store where workers have filed to unionize. LightRocket/Getty. Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.REI, the Seattle-based outdoor gear retailer whose name is practically synonymous with camping, doesn’t want you to think it’s anti-union. Unions are fine, a great choice for…
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…