Complaining About Air Travel Is a No-Brainer for Democrats
Tony Williams/CQ Roll Call via ZUMA Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On Wednesday Pennsylvania’s Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman proposed an intriguing new policy idea: What if airlines weren’t so terrible? With non-weather-induced cancellations throwing a big wrench into the summer-vacation…
What Will Brazil Do With Illegally Trafficked American Garbage?
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.This story was produced in collaboration with Columbia Journalism Investigations and UOL. It was republished in partnership with Mother Jones. A green squeegee. A plastic bottle half-filled with neon yellow liquid. Used geriatric diapers. Latex gloves.…
Sure, Jason Ravnsborg Was Impeached. He Still Got Away With Killing Someone.
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On Tuesday, the South Dakota house of representatives impeached the state’s Republican attorney general, Jason Ravnsborg, for killing a 55-year-old pedestrian with his Ford Taurus in September 2020. Ravnsborg paid a small fine…
Does Biden’s Drug Czar Pick Have What It Takes to Take on the Overdose Crisis?
John Raby/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Tuesday, President Biden nominated Dr. Rahul Gupta, who led the response to West Virginia’s devastating overdose crisis, to direct the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The nomination comes amidst news that overdose deaths…
You Just Paid Your Taxes. Here’s How the Super-Rich Avoid Them.
Comstock Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.With taxes due this week, it’s an apt time to consider some of the ways our federal tax code favors America’s wealthiest, and how a subset of those fortunate folks…
How PPP Loan Distribution Became the New Redlining
A Philadelphia street in May 2020.Matt Rourke/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The Paycheck Protection Program was supposed to help small businesses struggling from the crippling financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic. But the benefits, as…