For Sale by President Trump: A Leaky, Polluted Warehouse Caught Up in a Lawsuit
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Anyone in the market for a polluted South Carolina warehouse that’s mired in a messy lawsuit? Did we mention it has a leaky roof? President Donald Trump’s company, known for its glitzy real estate developments, is trying to find a buyer for…
Here’s Yet Another Reason to Believe in Skyrocketing Income Inequality
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Continuing on our theme of the day, here’s the total net worth of the Forbes 400 list of the world’s richest people: This might actually understate things since it’s a global list, not just an American one. But even at that, the wealth of the world’s…
Ohio’s Voter Removal Law Is… Probably Not Illegal
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ohio removes people from the voting rolls if they have failed to vote in the past two years and then fail to respond to a notice and fail to vote during the next four years after that. But federal law says that you can’t remove…
Democrats and Republicans Just Worked Together (!) to Make Progress on the Opioid Epidemic
President Trump signs the INTERDICT Act/White House Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump signed bipartisan legislation that will appropriate funds to buy machines that identify packages containing fentanyl, an opioid up to 100 times more powerful than morphine that is driving the overdose epidemic. The…
The Latest Windows Keyboard Is a Piece of Crap
Behold the inexplicably useless new Windows on-screen keyboard. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m about to post some serious stuff—honest—but first I have to get something off my chest. I have never been as pissed off about an operating system “upgrade” as I am over the new on-screen keyboard in…
Yet Another Reason to Believe That Income Inequality Has Skyrocketed Recently
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s another reason I think the rise of income inequality is real. If income inequality had stayed about the same over the past few decades, then you’d expect wealth inequality to stay roughly the same too. But that’s not what’s happened: Measurement of wealth has…