Vermont Could Be the First State to Bill Oil Firms for Climate Damage
Flood waters block a street in Barre, Vt on July 12, 2023.Charles Krupa/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Vermont is poised to pass a groundbreaking measure forcing major polluting companies to help pay for damages caused by the climate crisis, in a move being closely…
The UK’s New Study on Gender Affirming Care Misses the Mark in So Many Ways
Protesters gathered in August 2021 outside the office of the Prime Minister demanding an end to discrimination against the trans community in the United Kingdom.Vuk Valcic / ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last month, the UK’s four-year-long review of medical interventions for transgender…
How My Campus Avoided a Horrible Protest Showdown
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.How—in a world that increasingly feels like it’s under unmanageable stress—can we maintain the sense of community, and the actual communities, that we need to both help alleviate and survive those stresses? It’s a question that our country has…
Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung spent four years in medical school, four years in an OB-GYN residency, and three years in a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship learning how to care for high-risk pregnant patients. In her decade-plus of medical…
More Than a Million Adults Have Legal Guardians. Seven States Won’t Let Them Vote.
Tèa Kvetenadze/New York Daily News/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last month, the Department of Justice released new guidance reaffirming disabled people’s right to vote, and the ways that their voting rights are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. “For too long,” the…
A Nurse on the Scene Inside Rafah’s Last Maternity Hospital
Mother Jones; Getty; photo courtesy of Bridget Rochios Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At the last maternity and neonatal hospital in Rafah, the devastation has already arrived. “There is no safe place in Gaza from a healthcare perspective—and beyond,” Bridget Rochios, a certified nurse-midwife from…