If It’s Not a Service Animal, Leave Your Pet at Home, You Monsters
Monsterajr_images/Getty There are few things Americans love more than traveling home for the holidays. This Sunday is slated to the busiest day for US airlines in history, with 3.1 million people flying home that day (overall, airlines expected 31.6 million passengers over the course of Thanksgiving travels this year). But what do Americans love even more…
If It’s Not a Service Animal, Leave Your Pet at Home You Monsters
Monsterajr_images/Getty There are few things Americans love more than traveling home for the holidays. This Sunday is slated to the busiest day for US airlines in history, with 3.1 million people flying home that day (overall, airlines expected 31.6 million passengers over the course of Thanksgiving travels this year). But what do Americans love even more…
Juul’s Campaign to Raise the Tobacco Age Is More Complicated Than It Seems
Mother Jones illustration; Getty On July 25, Juul, the $38 billion e-cigarette company, appeared before the United States House Oversight Committee to explain its role in youth nicotine addiction. Juul presented itself as a steward of public health before Congress. “Our incentive is to help [smokers] achieve their goal of transitioning from cigarettes,” said James…
Stop Building a Spaceship to Mars and Just Plant Some Damn Trees
borchee/Getty When it comes to climate change research, most studies bear bad news regarding the looming, very real threat of a warming planet and the resulting devastation that it will bring upon the Earth. But a new study, out Thursday in the journal Science, offers a sliver of hope for the world: A group of…
This Tax Day, Some Truckers are Unhappy with Trump
Trump gestures from the cab of an 18-wheeler parked outside the White House.Andrew Harnik/AP Last month, Dennis Bridges, a CPA who runs an accounting firm just north of Atlanta, had to break bad news to a client. Bridges specializes in doing taxes for truck drivers around the country, and this tax season he’s had to…
Activists Couldn’t Get Facebook to Tackle Its Discrimination Problem—Until the Russia Scandal Hit
Mother Jones illustration On April 10, 2018, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg did something he had managed to avoid in his 14 years at the helm of the tech giant he had built: He testified before Congress. His company had been battered in the preceding months, first by revelations that Russia had used the…