Monsters: The Idiots Defacing Our National Parks
Mother Jones illustration; Westwind Air Service/Unsplash Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As usual, the staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. Find all of 2021’s heroes and monsters here. The Narrows is one of the most…
Will This Court Case End the Mining Industry’s 150-Year Dominance of the West?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Early one May morning, I escaped Tucson’s unrelenting grid and drove south through Pima County on Arizona’s state Route 83, into the heart of the Madrean Sky Islands, an almost mythical landscape of shadowy, isolated peaks where…
Joe Biden Wants to Fire Right-Wing Radio Host Michael Savage From Board of National Park
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.During his time in the White House, Donald Trump rewarded many of his loyalists with plum jobs. One of the most egregious of those appointments was radio host Michael Savage, whom…
Trump Has Blown Up His One Decent Conservation Action—of Course
President Donald J. Trump during a signing ceremony for The Great American Outdoors Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, August 4, 2020. Looking on at left is US Senator Cory Gardner (Republican of Colorado).Chris Kleponis/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to…
Snow Is on the Way—and Amid COVID-19, Wilderness Recovery Missions Are on the Rise
A ski patrol training on at Cooper Mountain, Colorado.AAron Ontiveroz/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.This piece was originally published in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Every winter,…
Count on Biden to Restore the National Monuments Trump Trashed
Trees line a low-lying gulch about the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument outside of Escalante, Utah.L.E. Baskow/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.This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk…