HIV Is On the Loose In West Virginia, and so Is a Moral Panic About Needle Exchanges
Mother Jones illustration; Getty 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.It had all the trappings of a full-blown drug bust: confidential informants, undercover cops wearing wires, detectives surveilling the scene. In their report, police in Charleston, West…
A Post-Trump Guide to Stopping the Lies and Healing Our Politics
Oxford University Press/Mother Jones illustration 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.Cass Sunstein is a public intellectual and provocateur—and he has been pondering a timely issue: public lying. A longtime Harvard law professor and an expert on…
Report: Facebook Still Struggles to Contain Misinformation
Bill Clark-Pool/Getty Images 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.In 2016, Facebook was caught flatfooted. Throughout that year’s election, Americans using the platform confronted a range of misinformation as Russian state-sponsored trolls, Eastern European teenagers, and others…
This Agency Could Push Banks to Fight Inequality—and Biden Has to Decide Who Should Run It
Mother Jones illustration; University of Michigan; Wikimedia 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.Two years after the 2008 financial crisis, a government commission began releasing their findings on the causes of the worst economic downturn in nearly…
What Biden Can Do to Boost the Economy Without Any Help From Congress
Michael Byers 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.When Joe Biden is inaugurated in January, he’ll have twin crises on his hands: a coronavirus surge and the economic damage the pandemic has wrought, including business closures, high…
Mustafa Santiago Ali Describes the Path Forward for Environmental Justice
Having departed the EPA under President Trump, Mustafa Santiago Ali is now vice president of environmental justice at the National Wildlife Federation. Courtesy image 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.This piece was originally published in High…