Trump’s First Defense Secretary Was a “Mad Dog.” Will His Second Be a Lapdog?
Deputy defense secretary Patrick Shanahan prays before the start of a Cabinet meeting in August at the White House.Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump’s bizarre, rambling performance during a Cabinet meeting last week received attention for all the obvious reasons, from his historically inaccurate interlude about…
As Washington Fights Over a Wall, a Humanitarian Crisis Is Unfolding on America’s Doorstep
The El Barretal camp in Tijuana, Mexico, where many migrants are now living.Noah Lanard/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In April, after Nicaragua’s increasingly authoritarian government began killing protesters, Isaac Molina tried to help. Molina saw the carnage at a university in Managua and rushed home to fill a…
Are You Getting a Raise Thanks to New Minimum Wage Laws?
The Fight for $15 movement, started by fast food workers, has spurred on progress across the country.AFP/ Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This new year, minimum wage workers across the country will be seeing a bump in their paychecks. On January 1st, 19 states and 21 cities raised their…
The EPA Hired GOP Oppo Firm Because it Was Sick of “Fake News”
Tom Williams/CQ, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Mother Jones first reported in December 2017 that the Environmental Protection Agency had hired a hyper-partisan GOP opposition research firm known for its aggressive tactics to handle the agency’s news-clipping work, the politically appointed flacks in the agency’s press office insisted the decision was about…
Antarctic Sea Ice Is “Astonishingly” Low This Melt Season
DeAgostini/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Right now, on the shores of Antarctica, there’s open water crashing against the largest ice shelf in the world. The annual ice-free season has begun at the Ross Ice Shelf—a…
You Bought Smart Speakers Over the Holiday. Now What Are Amazon and Google Doing With Your Data?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mother Jones illustrationI recently attended a holiday potluck hosted by a tech-junkie friend who had decked out his one-bedroom apartment with smart speakers, smart lights, and small, infrared motion sensors that looked disconcertingly like cameras. Towards the end of the party, after one of the…