2022 Was a Particularly Deadly Year for Land and Environmental Activists
Eraldo Peres/AP This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In February of 2022, Colombian human rights activists Teófilo Acuña and Jorge Tafur were assassinated in front of their friends and families after decades of working to protect small, rural communities from mining and land-grabbing. Their killers have not been…
The Christian Groups Fighting Against the Indian Child Welfare Act
Mother Jones; Getty; Library of Congress Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Editor’s note: This short piece accompanied “Forever Home” in the March+April 2023 print edition of Mother Jones. This spring, the US Supreme Court will hear a case that could decide the future of…
Sarah Palin Just Lost a 50-Year GOP Seat to Alaska’s First Native Rep
Mark Thiessen/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For decades, it’s been unthinkable that Alaska could let a Democrat occupy its only seat in the House of Representatives, which had been held by the late GOP Rep. Don Young since 1972. But in the…
Why Are Right-Wing Groups Targeting a Law Aimed at Protecting Native Families?
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2016, a Navajo and Cherokee 10-month-old named Zachary arrived in the home of a white, evangelical couple named Jennifer and Chad Brackeen. The Brackeens lived on an acre lot outside of Fort Worth, Texas,…
The Colorado River Is Dying. Can Its Aquatic Dinosaurs Be Saved?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“You’re looking at the most endangered fish in North America,” Zane Olsen, the manager of the Ouray National Fish Hatchery tells me as he points to a deep open-topped water tank. Inside are dozens of juvenile bonytail, the rarest…
Alaska Just Elected Its First Native Representative
Peltola, 49, is Yup’ik, which is Alaska’s largest indigenous community.Mark Thiessen/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Representative-elect Mary Peltola just made history. With a 51-49 upset victory over ex-governor Sarah Palin, confirmed Wednesday by the state’s Division of Elections, Peltola has won Alaska’s sole…