Here Are the Biggest Legal Challenges Facing Trump’s Agenda in 2018
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration’s lawyers have had quite the year. Between lawsuits claiming the president illegally accepted gifts from foreign governments and a defamation case from an Apprentice alumna who has accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, the White House legal team has faced one…
Have Yourself a Porny Little Christmas
Kangah/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It could be the gift-giving, the mistletoe, or the spiked eggnog—but something about Christmas seems to make people want to get it on. In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, a group of researchers from Portugal and Indiana University analyzed Google searches between 2004 and 2014…
What Siri Says When New Zealanders Ask About Sex
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Tell me about menopause.” “Am I at risk of HIV?” “Is it OK to put a jade egg in my vagina?” A team of New Zealand researchers posed these questions and 47 others to digital assistants to determine how effectively Siri et…
Study: Fracking Can Stunt the Growth of Your Baby
Kanawa_Studio/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The practice of drilling into the ground to release natural gas—known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking—first made national headlines in 2011 when drinking water taps in fracking towns in Pennsylvania began catching fire because flammable methane was seeping into water supplies. Since then, fracking has been linked…
This Book Will Challenge Everything You Thought You Knew About Hate Crimes
Students at Maybeck High School in Berkeley, California, wear skirts in support of their classmate Sasha Fleischman, an agender teen, in November 2013. AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, Doug Oakley Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It seemed to happen so suddenly. One minute Sasha Fleischman, an agender teen on their…
2017 Was the Deadliest Year For Trans People In At Least a Decade
People attend a Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil in Pittsfield, Mass., Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017.Gillian Jones/The Berkshire Eagle/AP At least 25 transgender people have been violently killed in 2017, more than during any other recorded year in the past decade, according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). The report notes that 84 percent of the victims were…