Festival of Slights, the Second Night: The Sheriff’s Star
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. During presidential elections, there is sometimes a lull of inactivity after both parties settle on their general…
Study: Fracking Can Stunt the Growth of Your Baby
Kanawa_Studio/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The practice of drilling into the ground to release natural gas—known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking—first made national headlines in 2011 when drinking water taps in fracking towns in Pennsylvania began catching fire because flammable methane was seeping into water supplies. Since then, fracking has been linked…
WikiLeaks Go-Between Takes the Fifth
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at the mothership, Daniel Friedman reports on the latest in the Trump-Russia saga: Randy Credico, a comedian and radio host who Trump adviser Roger Stone claims was his intermediary to WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, has asserted his Fifth Amendment right ahead of an interview with…
Trump Is Going Ballistic Against Journalists. What Is He So Afraid Of?
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Throughout Donald Trump’s first year as president, I’ve kept a running record of his authoritarian behavior titled “Trumpocracy.” A major component of this now very lengthy document has been his ceaseless attack on the American news media. But although Trump’s rants against reporting…
Republican Bill Would Slash Programs That Make College More Affordable
A Republican bill could cut off access to college to some low-income students.EvgeniiAnd/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House Republican tax bill generated an uproar among graduate students when it proposed a tax on their tuition waivers that would cost many of them thousands of dollars a year. That provision…
New Study Says Climate Change Made Hurricane Harvey a Lot Worse
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Spoiler alert: global warming made the destruction of Hurricane Harvey both worse and more likely. In a new paper by Mark Risser and Michael Wehner of Lawrence Berkeley Labs, they first show us the rainfall trend for Houston over the past 70 years: The upward…