EPA Has Finally Opened Civil Rights Investigations Over Pollution in “Cancer Alley”
Emily Kask/AFP/Getty Images This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has opened a series of civil rights investigations into state agencies in Louisiana to examine whether permits granted in the highly polluted industrial corridor, known locally as Cancer Alley, have violated Black citizens’…
The Pope Calls for Peace in Ukraine
At the Vatican’s first major Easter service since the pandemic, Francis condemns nuclear weapons. Pope Francis leaving his Easter address.Alessandra Tarantino/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Pope Francis called for peace in Ukraine in an Easter address before a crowd of…
Science Confirms That When White People Read About Covid Racial Disparities, They Respond Selfishly
Mother Jones illustration; Sindy Sussengut/Unsplash; Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.At Mother Jones, stories about Covid’s disparate impacts have been at the core of our pandemic coverage. Back in April 2020, my colleagues Edwin Rios and Sinduja Rangarajan, for example,…
How Greece Secretly Adopted the World’s Most Brazen—and Brutal—Way of Keeping Out Refugees
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It was a clear spring morning on the Greek island of Chios, and the waves pummeled the shoreline, whipping the Aegean into a froth. Antonis Bourmas’ house clung to the edge of a rocky point that faced…
How Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nick Fuentes Are Easing White Power into the GOP Mainstream
White nationalist Nick Fuentes speaks in New York City in November 2021.Rainmaker photos/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. Fuentes just called Jared Taylor, head of the “race-realist, white advocacy organization” American Renaissance, his “personal hero” and said he wants to honor…
School Boards Have Long Been a Tool of White Supremacy
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.At raucous school board meetings across the country, disgruntled parents have grabbed the mic to represent the political desires of the Republican Party. Once-innocuous local gatherings have become anti–critical race theory caucuses administered by white people. In…