Pence Furthers Split With Trump and DeSantis With Surprise Ukraine Trip
Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This week, former Vice President Mike Pence made a surprise trip to Ukraine, where he met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The trip draws a contrast between himself and fellow presidential candidates like Donald Trump and Ron…
Biden Says He’ll Try Another Way to Cancel Student Debt
Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After the Supreme Court threw out his debt relief plan earlier in the day, President Joe Biden promised in a White House speech Friday afternoon to pursue a different legal strategy for canceling student debt. “I believe…
The Supreme Court Made It Even Harder to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Mother Jones; Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Within 24 hours, two rulings from the nation’s highest court—one striking down the use of race-conscious college admissions, and the second gutting Biden’s student debt cancellation plan—rolled back years of progress towards greater…
The Supreme Court Just Struck Down Biden’s Plan to Cancel Student Debt
Mother Jones; Allison Bailey/SOPA/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court struck down on Friday the Biden administration’s plan to wipe out more than $400 billion in student loans for about 40 million Americans. The plan, announced last August, would have canceled…
The Supreme Court Allows Discrimination Against LGBTQ People
Mother Jones; Patsy Lynch/IPX/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court on Friday allowed certain businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ people, creating a large loophole in federal and state civil rights laws that have protected Americans for decades. Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the…
Climate Change May Leave Island Nations Stateless
The island nation of Tuvalu.INABA Tomoaki/Wikimedia Commons This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Small island nations would rather fight than flee, but rising sea levels have prompted apocalyptic legal discussions about whether a state is still a state if its land disappears below the waves.…