Drowning in Day Care Costs? Under This New Bill, Many Families Would Pay $10 a Day.
Children play at the new Branford Childcare Center in Los Angeles, California on Monday, June 13, 2022.Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The average cost of day care in the US exceeds $10,000 annually for one…
The Case for Legalizing Jaywalking
Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.You don’t have to look far to find people who have been ticketed for jaywalking in American cities. Two of my colleagues eagerly shared their stories of being hit with fines during their morning commutes…
The Allegations Against One of Soccer’s Richest Clubs Tell the Story of the Sport’s Gilded Age
Martin Rickett/ PA Wire / ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ever since its acquisition 15 years ago by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, a powerful member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi, Manchester City Football Club has been the Future. City…
Senate Democrats Are Taking Companies to Task Over Invasive Workplace Surveillance
Ignatiev/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Whether you call it “tattleware,” “bossware,” or “surveillance capitalism,” Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) has had enough of exploitative workplace monitoring technologies. Late last week, Casey and a handful of other Senate Democrats introduced the Stop Spying Bosses Act, which would…
Relax, New Yorkers. Nobody’s Coming for Your Gas Stove.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On January 9, in an interview with Bloomberg, an agency commissioner at the US Consumer Product Safety Commission floated the idea of regulations, or a potential ban, on new gas stoves—citing the “hidden hazard” of…
Republicans Have Manufactured a Controversy Over the Chinese Spy Balloon
Larry Mayer/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A US military fighter jet shot down the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, but the Biden administration has a different kind of foe that has yet to be neutralized: attacks coming…