The Closest Election in History?
Nelson Peltz has just won election to the board of Procter & Gamble by a margin of 50.001 percent to 49.999 percent. Is this the closest election ever in corporate history? Or in the history of elections altogether?
WikiLeaks Set Off an Attack on Our Trump-Russia Project—Right After Messaging Donald Trump Jr. About It
Ron Sachs/DPA/AP; Ben Cawthra/Rex Shutterstock/ZUMA; Mother Jones illustration Additional reporting for this story was contributed by Denise Clifton and AJ Vicens. On Monday, The Atlantic published private messages from September 2016 in which WikiLeaks gave Donald Trump Jr. the password to a forthcoming site documenting his father’s ties to Russia. But there was more to the…
Solar Geoengineering Could Prevent Massive Storms. It Could Also Backfire.
CIRA/Flickr This story was originally published by Wired and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every country on Earth, save for cough one, has banded together to cut emissions and stop the runaway heating of our only home. That’s nearly 200 countries working to keep the global average temperature from climbing 2 degrees Celsius above pre-Industrial Revolution levels. Phenomenal.…
Republicans Want to Make the Koch Brothers’ Political Donations Tax Deductible
Donald Trump speaks at Liberty University during the 2016 presidential campaign. As President, Trump has tried to make it easier for churches to endorse political candidates.Steve Helber/AP Few adolescents who’ve sat through homilies would accuse priests or rabbis of lacking material. House Republicans beg to differ. Under their tax bill, religious institutions—and all nonprofits—would be…
CBO: The Republican Tax Bill Will Trigger $136 Billion in Automatic Budget Cuts Next Year
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA We already know this about the Republican tax bill: It must increase the deficit no more than $1.5 trillion over the next ten years. It must not raise the deficit at all beyond ten years. But there’s always been a third requirement too, and I’ve been waiting for that shoe…
Donald Trump Sends Prayers to Wrong Victims of Mass Shooting
Wut? Didn’t this happen more than a week ago? Is Trump thinking of Rancho Tehama, California? Does he really pay that little attention to mass shootings? BTW, here’s his tweet from the actual day of the shooting in Sutherland Springs: He really puts a lot of thought into these tweets of compassion, doesn’t he?