Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the late summer of 2015, Chris Wilson, the director of research, analytics, and digital strategy for Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, had a conversation with a contractor that left him furious. A widely respected pollster who had taken leave from his firm to work…
Lead Kills Way More Americans Than We Ever Imagined
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The impacts of lead exposure on children’s health and development are widely known, but new research suggests the poison could be more harmful to adults than previously thought. According to a new study in the public health journal The Lancet, lead exposure accounts for more than…
The Trump Administration Is Taking Aim at This Amazing Bird So Oil Companies Can Drill Public Land
A sage-grouse male struts to attract a mateBob Wick/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One weird western bird is again at the center of a battle between conservationists and the federal government. Now, like a lot of environmental causes under the Trump administration, the greater sage-grouse—once a candidate for the…
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Wanted A Live TV Debate Questioning Climate Change
Gage Skidmore/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Pruitt, the polluter-friendly chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, has already amassed a lengthy list of extreme, fringey accomplishments. As Rebecca Leber wrote in her recent Mother Jones cover story, Pruitt has set out to demolish one EPA policy after another during…
“What Really Stresses Me Out Is the Fact That I Might Die in This Building”
Mother Jones illustration; kieferpix/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. “It was no surprise to anyone who knew him to hear that he was the shooter.”—Emma Gonzalez, Senior, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Over the past three weeks, the impassioned voices and steadfast demands of…
Jeff Sessions Has a Huge Conflict of Interest in a Federal Bribery Case—and It Keeps Getting Worse
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Alabama’s junior senator, Jeff Sessions was far more involved than previously known in helping two of his top contributors derail a federal environmental cleanup effort, according to records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Mother Jones and the Project…