Steve Cohen Is Spending Millions to Help Veterans. Why Are People Angry?
Steve Cohen’s network of clinics have thrust him into the spotlight over privatizing the VA. William Deshazer/Chicago Tribune/TNS/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and Fortune. At a House hearing last year on post-traumatic stress disorder, a private organization showed up with an ambitious…
Thanks to Trump’s Family Separations, Democrats Are in the Hot Seat for Taking Private Prison Cash
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a theater outside Miami last month, as a debate between four Democratic candidates for Florida governor approached the two-hour mark, 18-year-old activist ErrDaisha Floyd took the mic and turned the conversation toward a topic close to her heart: private prisons. The…
Fossil Fuel Industries Outspend Clean Energy Advocates on Climate Lobbying by 10 to 1
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Fossil fuel producers, airlines and electrical utilities outspent environmental groups and the renewable energy industry 10 to 1 on lobbying related to climate change legislation between 2000 and 2016, according to a new analysis released Wednesday. The research, which will be published…
Jeff Sessions Named as Potential Witness in Alabama Corruption Trial
Michael Candelori / Pacific Press/Sipa USA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday was named as a potential witness in the federal corruption trial of an Alabama coal executive and two politically connected attorneys in that state, according to several Alabama news reports. The case—which is…
What If We Held a Constitutional Convention and the Right-Wingers Prevailed?
Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nature’s rights, universal basic income, keeping money out of politics: These are some of the principles guiding a coalition of left-wing Californians who want to serve as the “progressive voice” at a convention—which they believe is inevitable—to amend the United States Constitution.…
Sulfur Dioxide Damages Lungs, and Scott Pruitt Is Letting More of It in Our Air
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a quarter of the nation’s coal-fired power plants in 2017 lacked pollution controls limiting emissions of lung-damaging sulfur dioxide, even though some of their counterparts have been using the controls for almost 40 years. Federal data show this disparity. It leaves…