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…
Social Security Will Be Solvent for the Rest of the Century
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While we wait for results from Alabama, I have some good news to share. I was browsing through the 2017 Social Security Trustees report, and it turns out that Social Security will be solvent through the rest of the century. Here’s their chart of how…
Here Are the Results From the Alabama Election
Mother Jones Illustration; Brynn Anderson/AP; Dan Anderson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update 10:30 p.m.: Doug Jones is the winner of the special Senate election in Alabama. The polls have closed in the most closely watched race of the year, Alabama’s special Senate election between wildly controversial Republican Roy Moore…
Doug Jones Rides a Perfect GOP Storm to the Senate
Mother Jones illustration; Brynn Anderson/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Against all odds, a Democrat will take the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and represent Alabama in the US Senate. Doug Jones, the underdog in the race, prevailed Tuesday in a close contest against a historically compromised opponent.…
Campaign Spokesman: Roy Moore “Probably” Thinks Homosexual Conduct Should Be Illegal
Dan Anderson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Roy Moore’s campaign spokesman Ted Crockett told CNN’s Jake Tapper Tuesday that the Republican Alabama senate candidate “probably” would consider homosexual conduct illegal. Asked by Tapper to elaborate on a statement Roy Moore made in 2005 that homosexual conduct should be against the law, Crockett…