Republicans Are Grasping for a Reason to Impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing.Annabelle Gordon/CNP/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, House Republicans renewed their plan to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It is part of a long attempt to pin the failures—both real…
What It Was Like to Be a Black Patient in a Jim Crow Asylum
Mother Jones; Mark Clennon Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In March 1911, the segregated Crownsville asylum opened outside Baltimore, Maryland, admitting only Black patients. It was the first to house Black people in the state, but when they arrived, their main role wasn’t to…
Last Year Was the Hottest One in Recorded History
The city of Santiago, Chile covered in smoke from forest fires.Matias Basualdo/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Two thousand twenty-three “smashed” the record for the hottest year by a huge margin, providing “dramatic testimony” of how much warmer and more dangerous today’s climate is from the…
The Most Absurd Moment From Trump’s Make-or-Break Immunity Hearing
Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Would a president who orders one of the country’s most secretive and lethal military units to assassinate his political opponents be protected from criminal prosecution? That’s the question at the heart of an alarming exchange during today’s…
A Story of Mother Jones (the Labor Organizer) That’s Relevant a Century Later
Sen. John Worth Kern and Mary Harris Jones, a.k.a. Mother Jones (shown here in military custody), teamed up in 1913 to form a Democratic Party–progressive alliance to aid miners in West Virginia. Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides…
The Water Loophole That Leaves Arizonans Parched—and Developers Richer
Mario Tama/Getty/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When a small Arizona community called Rio Verde Foothills lost its water supply one year ago, forcing locals to skip showers and eat off paper plates, it became a poster child for unwise desert development. The rural neighborhood of about…