Project 2025 Aims to Kill Federal Subsidies for Carbon Removal Projects
A Chevron drilling rig designed to assist in carbon capture.Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle/Getty Images This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over the past few years, the United States has become the go-to location for companies seeking to suck carbon dioxide out of the sky. There are a handful of demonstration-scale…
Federal Investigation: Disabled People Are Five Times More Likely to Experience Domestic Violence
Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Disabled people are five times more likely to experience domestic violence than non-disabled people, and make up a third of its victims, according to a new report published today by the federal Government Accountability Office. People…
Uncommitted Won’t Endorse Harris But Urges Voters to “Block Donald Trump”
Mother Jones illustration; Yuri Gripas/Pool/Cnp/CNP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Uncommitted movement announced on Thursday that it will not be endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. The decision comes in response to Harris declining to break with the Biden administration over its response…
How Republicans Could Block a Democratic Victory in Georgia
An election worker examines a ballot during vote counting in the 2020 election at State Farm Arena, in Atlanta. Brynn Anderson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is no stranger to voter suppression in Georgia and she sees…
Is the GOP Firing Blanks With Its Extremist “Young Gun” House Candidates?
From left: Caroleene Dobson, Joe Kent, and Scott BaughMother Jones illustration; Courtesy of Dobson for Congress/AP; Rachel La Corte/AP; Krysta Fauria/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. As the 2024 election hits the final stretch, the Republican Party has been touting its “Young Guns,”…
Indigenous Activists Haven’t Forgotten Walz’s Promises to Oppose Line 3
Mother Jones; Tim Evans/NurPhoto/ZUMA; Sue Dorfman/ZUMA When Gov. Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’ running mate, Ben Jealous, the Sierra Club’s executive director, released a statement hailing him as someone who “has worked to protect clean air and water, grow our clean energy economy, and see to it that we do all we can…