Montana Lawmakers Really Want to Force Women to Share Parental Rights With Their Rapists
Antonio Guillem/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.This week, Montana lawmakers are considering a bill to amend the state’s child custody laws. A provision in the not-so-fine-print: “Alleged sexual intercourse without consent resulting in the birth of…
Electoral Gains This Week Show the (New) South Rises—Slowly
Former gubernatorial candidate and former state Rep. Stacey Abrams waves to the crowd as she crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Sunday, March 1, 2020, in Selma, Ala. Butch Dill/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Progress toward a more just and equal society is…
Mississippians Overwhelmingly Voted Down a Jim Crow–Era Election Provision
Voters slowly make their way through the long line Tupelo Miss., on Nov. 3, 2020.Thomas Wells/The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal via AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Mississippi voters overwhelmingly supported a ballot initiative on Tuesday to dismantle a Jim Crow–era constitutional provision…
It’s a Scary Time Nationally for Abortion Rights. Activists Hope Tuesday Brings Big Local Victories.
Demonstrators participate in a rally for Planned Parenthood at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, in April 2017. Jay Janner/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.If you support access to abortion, you’re probably pretty freaked out about Amy Coney Barrett joining the nation’s highest…
South Dakota Lawmakers Just Voted to Send Doctors to Jail for Helping Trans Kids
South Dakota is poised to be the first state to criminalize gender affirming health care for transgender youth.Kathy Willens/AP After hours of heated (and often comically inaccurate) debate, South Dakota’s House of Representatives on Wednesday became the first in the country to green light a bill that prohibits gender–affirming medical care for transgender kids. The…
They Were Promised Broadband and High-Tech Jobs. They’re Still Waiting.
Imago/ZUMA This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. A year ago, Mary Lou Muncy landed her dream job advising home health care agencies on…