With Famine “Imminent,” Israeli Military Kills Seven Aid Workers Delivering Food to Gazans
Seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to the NGO.Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This week, Israel fired three missiles at an aid convoy for the World Central Kitchen (WCK), killing seven workers delivering…
The Biden Administration Just Rescued Parts of the Endangered Species Act
A Mantled Howler Monkey, which is listed as an endangered species by the US Fish & Wildlife ServicesJon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Zuma This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. During former President Donald Trump’s time in office, his administration rolled back a variety of safeguards for wildlife and…
Florida Supreme Court Approves a Six-Week Ban—And Lets an Abortion Rights Ballot Measure Move Forward
Abortion rights advocates protested in Florida last year as the legislature debated a six-week ban—which will now take effect next month. The Washington Post/Contributor/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Florida’s Supreme Court issued a pair of major rulings today on abortion that will both further…
Trump’s Truth Social Lost $58 Million Last Year!
Lev Radin/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social landed last week on the stock market as a publicly traded company with a whole lot of hype—share prices rocketed as high as $79, instantly adding as much $6.2 billion…
She Has Investigated Allegations of Sexual Violence in War Around the World. Here’s What She Wants You to Know.
Mother Jones; Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Despite being “the cheapest weapon known to man,” sexual violence in war is “almost always ignored in the history books,” writes journalist Christina Lamb in her 2020 book, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the…
The Invisible Work of America’s Domestic Workers
This story is a collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Magnum Foundation. We asked photographers to show us the paradox of today’s labor movement. Even as the popularity of unions has grown over the last decade, actual membership has continued to decline. Can new enthusiasm revitalize American labor? Read about this unique moment…