Mitt Romney’s Bid to Become Utah’s Next Senator Just Hit A Roadblock. Here’s What Happens Next.
U. S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney delivers his speech to the delegates at the Utah Republican Nominating Convention Saturday, April 21, 2018, at the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah. Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mitt Romney seemed like a shoo-in to…
Here’s an Adorable Video of a Baby Tree Kangaroo Taking Its First Hops
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here at Mother Jones, we get that Sundays are best spent relaxing, hanging out with friends and family, and avoiding the daily deluge of troubling news before a new work week begins. That’s where this viral video of a baby tree kangaroo comes in. Taronga Zoo,…
How a Skeptical High School Teacher Learned to Take Teenagers Seriously
Mingo Nesmith/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. During the first week of May 1963, more than 800 African-American students walked out of their classrooms and into the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, to call for an end to segregation. Despite frequent arrests and having dogs…
It’s Sunday Morning So Trump Is Tweet-Yelling at His TV Again. This Time About North Korea.
/The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump is at his Florida resort today, with the television tuned into “Fake News NBC”, where anchor Chuck Todd was previewing his show, Meet the Press. “There’s not many preconditions the United States is asking for so far in…
The Global Crisis of Plastic Pollution
Dan Clark/Planet Pix/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A young sperm whale, the largest toothed predator on Earth and an endangered species, washed up on the beach in southeastern Spain in February. Wanting to know…
Scott Pruitt May Have Violated Oklahoma Ethics Rules as a State Senator
Scott PruittCarolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt used a shell company in 2003 to buy a home in Oklahoma from a retiring lobbyist, according to an investigation by the New York Times. At the time, Pruitt was a state senator in Oklahoma. The shell…