“What Can I Even Say Without Having to Go to Jail?”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Heather Williams, an advocate with the Tulsa-based nonprofit Domestic Violence Intervention Services, gets a call from the local hospital, she has to drop whatever she’s doing and go. The call normally comes in when a survivor of sexual assault…
It’s No Secret Our Tax System Punishes Low-Income People. It Doesn’t Have To.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates inequality. Oregon taxpayers will become some of the first in the nation to have the option to self-identify their race and ethnicity…
Democrat Wins Special Election for George Santos’ House Seat
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, Democrat Tom Suozzi was elected to replace indicted former GOP Rep. George Santos of New York in a special House election widely viewed as a bellwether contest ahead of the presidential election. Suozzi, who represented New…
My Dad Was a White Slave, Kentucky Republican Tells NAACP
Kentucky Republican state Rep. Jennifer Decker told a local NAACP chapter on the first day of Black History Month that her white father was a “slave”—before later admitting she “probably overstated,” according to a local report.Jon Cherry/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A Kentucky…
This Pennsylvania Special Election Is a 2024 Litmus Test
Orange barricades are erected outside of the Pennsylvania Capitol on January 14, 2021 after an FBI bulletin warned that armed protests were planned at state capitols ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Paul Weaver/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Democrats…
Utah Supports “Personhood” for Corporations, but Maybe Not Forests
Rock formations in Moab, UT.Walter G Arce Sr Grindstone Medi/ZUMA This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Lawmakers in Utah are advancing legislation aimed at stopping a growing “rights of nature” movement that has coalesced around efforts in the state to save the Great Salt…