Climate Disasters Are Leaving Some Poor Nations in a Crushing Cycle of Debt
A destroyed home in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian.Roger Edelman/ZUMA This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new UN report sheds light on how climate change is driving some climate-vulnerable nations deeper into debt, locking them into unsustainable cycles of economic crisis and hampering their governments’…
What if Everything We Are Told to Think About Periods Is Wrong?
Mother Jones; Talia Herman Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Periods are an undeniable part of most women’s lives, but for the bulk of history, science has only really cared about women’s reproductive tracts for one reason: “improving pregnancy outcomes,” writes Jen Gunter in her…
In 2023, Los Angeles Was on Strike
This story is a collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Magnum Foundation. We asked photographers to show us the paradox of today’s labor movement. Even as the popularity of unions has grown over the last decade, actual membership has continued to decline. Can new enthusiasm revitalize American labor? Read about this unique moment…
Bad Jobs Often Follow a Prison Sentence. They Want to Change That.
This story is a collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Magnum Foundation. We asked photographers to show us the paradox of today’s labor movement. Even as the popularity of unions has grown over the last decade, actual membership has continued to decline. Can new enthusiasm revitalize American labor? Read about this unique moment…
Joe Biden Got the Job Done
Mother Jones illustration; Shawn Thew/EFE/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For over an hour on Thursday night, during the State of the Union address, President Joe Biden energetically presented a vibrant progressive agenda and repeatedly stuck it to Donald Trump. Yes, there were stumbles…
Biden Should Go Dark Brandon at Tonight’s State of the Union
President Biden puts on sunglasses as he makes a joke about becoming “Dark Brandon” during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 29, 2023. Carolyn Kaster)/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A president only has a few chances during a reelection campaign to…