Florida Students Have Questions About the Ziegler Scandal. The Law Bridget Pushed Means Teachers Can’t Answer Them.
Mother Jones; Matt Rourke/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One day last week, Jessica Thomason’s sixth-grade daughter came home from school with a question: “What’s a three-way?” she asked her mom. Thomason, a substitute teacher and mother of two in Sarasota, was taken aback.…
The Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Kate Cox Hours After She Announced She Fled the State To Seek an Abortion
Eric Gay/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Update, December 11, 2o23 at 7:55 p.m.: The Texas Supreme Court overturned the lower court order on Monday, ruling against Kate Cox, her husband, and the medical team, hours after Cox announced she fled the state for…
Invisible Gas Clouds Are Warming the Poles Faster Than We Predicted
Iceberg A-23A, drifting northward across the Weddell Sea. NASA Earth/ZUMA This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you had lived some 50 million years ago and taken a trip to the poles, you would have found lush forests and creatures like crocodiles instead of miles-thick ice…
What’s Next for Donald Trump Now That His Gag Orders Were Upheld?
Andrea Renault/STAR MAX Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Update, December 10: Donald Trump announced Sunday afternoon that he had changed his mind and will not testify in his own defense in his civil fraud case. “I have already testified to everything & have nothing…
In India, a Growing Need for AC Could Add to Global Heating
Men remove an air conditioner in advance of a building demolition in New Delhi.Naveen Sharma/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For Muskan, the arrival of summer in Delhi is the “beginning of hell.” As temperatures in her cramped, densely populated east Delhi neighborhood often…
Family Separation at the Border Is Over, for Now
Children taken into custody sit in cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas in June 2018.U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Rio Grande Valley Sector/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, a federal judge in San Diego approved a settlement that prohibits the separation…