I Was Sexually Harassed by a Co-worker. My Boss Let My Harasser Stay to “Keep an Eye” on Him.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In 2016, Kelley Smith was looking for a job when a former colleague connected her with Ed Damiano. A prominent professor and biomedical engineer at Boston University, Damiano co-founded a biotech company called Beta Bionics and he…
How Is the US Actually Doing on Tracking Variants Like Omicron? We Asked Some Experts.
Mother Jones illustration; Ivan Yudin/TASS/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Back in February—a lifetime ago in pandemic time—I spoke with several experts who warned about the United States’ ability to sequence and track coronavirus variants. At the time, scientists in the United…
Pro-Trump Doctors Invoke Civil Rights in Bid to Overturn New York’s Vaccine Mandate
Dr. Simone Gold of the controversial America’s Frontline Doctors group, speaks to the crowd at the pro-Trump Freedom Tour U.S.A. rally in Sacramento on September 19th, 2020. Ron Lyon/ZUMA Wire Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.African Americans have among the highest COVID-19…
Who Is Mayim Bialik? A Terrible Choice for Jeopardy Host
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Yesterday, the producers of the long-running gameshow Jeopardy! announced two new co-hosts to replace the late Alex Trebek: the show’s executive producer Mike Richards and actress Mayim Bialik. Richards has his own issues—including being named in a…
The Pandemic Made Science More Accessible Than Ever. Let’s Keep It That Way.
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.Since the arrival of COVID-19, our lives have shifted in ways big and small. Most likely, the pandemic will not end with a bang—we’ll be dealing with…
A Bronx Tale: One Sperm Donor, 19 Siblings, and Six Decades of Secrets
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 Bob Eliot rushed to his parents’ apartment in Co-op City in the Bronx in the autumn of 2011, he was not expecting to discover a secret that would change how…