Here’s What Climate Change Is Doing to the West
A wildfire burns in Medford, Ore.Usfs/Planet Pix/Zuma This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The complexity of climate change means it’s hard to trace simple lines from cause to effect in daily life, much less plan for the future. That’s one reason the federal government updates its…
Cory Booker’s New Bill Has a “Snowball’s Chance in Hell” of Passing
Mel Evans/AP This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On October 23, Senator Cory Booker, one of the members of Congress most capable of harnessing bipartisan cooperation, introduced the Environmental Justice Act of 2017, which was devoid of one Republican sponsor. If passed, the bill would force the federal government to…
Guess Which Country Was AWOL at the UN Climate Conference?
Andy Kroll A door. That, more or less, is the extent of the United States government’s public presence at the 23rd United Nations climate change conference, hosted this year in Bonn, Germany. During the Obama years, the US dispatched scores of delegates to Copenhagen, Marrakech, Doha, and Lima for climate negotiations. They represented the country’s…
No One Knows How Many American Women Die From Causes Related to Pregnancy or Childbirth
byryo/Getty This story originally appeared on ProPublica. The questions are straightforward, with public health implications that would seem impossible to shrug off. How many American women die each year from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth? How many of these deaths are preventable? How does the nation’s current rate of maternal mortality compare to the…
Donald Trump Jr. Channeled WikiLeaks for the Trump Campaign
Albin Lohr-Jones/Avalon via ZUMA Last September, WikiLeaks sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr. via Twitter, suggesting that he look into a new anti-Trump site. This site, as it happens, is now part of Mother Jones, and Don Jr. promised to ask around about it. Which he did. Then, according to Julia Ioffe…
New Yorker: Roy Moore Was Banned From Local Mall in the 70s “Because He Repeatedly Badgered Teen-age Girls”
This is, for now, just unconfirmed gossip, but Charles Bethea writes at the New Yorker that in the late 70s and early 80s, Roy Moore cruised his local mall so obsessively that at one point he got himself banned: This past weekend, I spoke or messaged with more than a dozen people—including a major political…