Marco Rubio Will Defer Your Student Loans, but Only If You Survive a Terrorist Attack
Michael Brochstein/Zuma 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.Who needs student loan forgiveness when you can have your payments deferred for one year, with no decrease in total debt, so long as you’ve survived a terrorist attack?…
Sorry Louie, We Can’t Alter the Earth’s Orbit to Fix Climate Change
Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly/Zuma 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.Any armchair environmental scientist will tell you that the most crucial thing we humans can do to stave off the destruction of the planet is to stop pumping…
“The Sights Were Unimaginable”: Senate Releases Sobering Report on January 6 Insurrection
Ardavan Roozbeh/ZUMA 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.Two Senate committees have released their long-awaited, bipartisan report investigating the January 6 attack on Congress by Trump supporters over the certification of the 2020 presidential election. The report,…
The Supreme Court Just Made It Much Harder for Certain Immigrants to Get Green Cards
Protesters march from New York City to Washington DC, to the US Supreme Court.Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty 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.In a unanimous decision on Monday, the Supreme Court eliminated one of the few paths to…
Investigation: Wait, Who Are the “Internet Stars” at This White House Social Media Briefing?
SOPAImages/Getty 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.When the White House tweeted last night about their “first-ever social media briefing” between Press Secretary Jen Psaki and 11 “internet stars,” the internet wrote back a resounding “who dis?”…
Facebook Will Extend Trump Ban Until at Least 2023
President Donald Trump gives a final wave as he boards Marine One before departing the White House for the last time on January 20. Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that…