Bitcoin Is a Lousy Form of Money
Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Is bitcoin a good replacement for money? This is a popular question these days, but it’s poorly framed. “Money” should be thought of more as an adjective than a noun. That is, certain things are more moneylike than others. A dollar…
Trump’s Message to Tribes: Let Them Eat Yellowcake
Rick Bowmer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Uranium, it’s now part of Navajo DNA. With over 500 abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation, people living near these mines are exposed daily…
Festival of Slights, the 6th Night: The Jew Counter
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Happy Hanukkah! Mother Jones is celebrating this year’s festival of lights with a festival of slights. Specifically, President Donald Trump’s slights toward the Jewish people. Since his inauguration, many of President Donald Trump’s appointees have made headlines for being excruciatingly unfit for…
Amazon Pretends to Care About Climate. Until It’s Time to Build a New Headquarters.
This story was originally published by The Huffington Post and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Amazon kicked off a bidding war for its second North American headquarters in September, the company laid out a vision of its perfect suitor. The ideal city would have more than a million people, mass transit, an…
Festival of Slights, the Fifth Night: Trump’s Closing Argument to Voters
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Happy Hanukkah! Mother Jones is celebrating this year’s festival of lights with a festival of slights. Specifically, President Donald Trump’s slights toward the Jewish people. On the eve of the 2016 election, both Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump…
Here’s Why Republicans Are Hellbent on Passing an Unpopular Tax Bill
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Republican tax bill is massively unpopular. It polls at about 30 percent approval—the worst showing of any major bill in recent history—and doesn’t crack 50 percent even among Republicans. And yet, the GOP leadership is hellbent on passing it. What’s going on? Bear with…