“Betsy DeVos Was a Disaster. I Think Erika Donalds Could Be Worse.”
On a hot afternoon in June, some 700 seated attendees of the annual summit of the conservative parents’ rights group Moms for Liberty bowed their heads in prayer. The Moms had waited in a security line that spanned two floors of the Philadelphia Marriott to get here, and even during this somber moment, the giddiness…
State Pension Fund Is Helping a Middle Eastern Firm Export Arizona’s Precious Groundwater
A new groundwater pump was installed for farming in La Paz County, Arizona, in 2017. Débora Souza Silva This article is a collaboration between Mother Jones and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit investigative newsroom. Also listen to Reveal’s accompanying podcast, “The Great Arizona Water Grab.” As rural Arizonans face the prospect of wells running dry, foreign…
In Another Sign of Florida’s Democratic Decay, DeSantis Suspends an Elected Prosecutor
Ron DeSantis campaigns in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on August 6.Charlie Neibergall/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a break from his ailing presidential campaign on Wednesday to suspend Monique Worrell, an Orlando-based elected prosecutor. The move was unsurprising: Since winning…
The US Nuked Nagasaki 78 Years Ago Today. “Oppenheimer” Barely Mentions It.
A man pushes his bicycle through the remains of Nagasaki roughly a month after the United States detonated its second atomic bomb over the city.Stanley Troutman/ACME/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Seventy-eight years ago today, on August 9, 1945, the US military detonated a…
Direct Democracy—and Abortion Rights—Win in Ohio
Samantha Hendrickson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A Republican-driven effort to make it harder to amend the Ohio constitution failed in a special election on Tuesday. The defeated measure, known as Issue 1, would have effectively torpedoed the state’s direct democracy process, raising the…
One Politician Stopped California’s Fossil Fuels Divestment—Again
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This piece was originally published by Capital & Main.Environmental groups, faculty associations, and others seeking to slow climate change are pushing California to cut its investments in fossil fuels. Divestment supporters point to the state’s massive economy — the…