The US Just Shot Down High-Altitude Chinese “Spy Balloon”
A photo of the high-altitude balloon floating over Billings, Montana, on Wednesday.Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The giant white, aerial blob that US officials described as a Chinese spy balloon was seen plummeting towards the Atlantic Ocean near Surfside Beach,…
A Historic Vote Just Reshaped the Democratic Primary. But There Are Battles Ahead.
President Biden himself championed the historic shake-up. Here he is speaking at the DNC’s winter conclave on Friday.Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Bucking decades of political tradition, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted for a new line-up of early primary dates in…
The $400 Billion Man Running America’s Clean Energy Transition
Jigar Shah, director of the Department of Energy’s loan programs office in Washington, D.C. Mother Jones; US Energy Department/Wikimedia This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Deep in the confines of the hulking, brutalist headquarters of the US Department of Energy, down one of its long, starkly…
Shoot Down the Balloon, You Coward! (And Please Also Donate $35 to Republicans.)
Mother Jones; Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette/AP; Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.President Joe Biden seems to be pretty unhappy about the suspected Chinese spy balloon flying over Montana. His administration signaled this by postponing Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Beijing—less…
The Future of American Environmental Protests May be Unfolding in a Forest Outside Atlanta
A demonstrator holds a sign protesting the death of activist Manuel Teran, who went by Tortuguita, in Atlanta on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. Tortuguita was killed Wednesday, Jan. 18, after authorities said the 26-year-old shot a state trooper. They are the first environmental activist killed by law enforcement in the United States. R.J. Rico/AP Fight…
The Far-Right Bounty Hunter Behind the Explosive Popularity of “Died Suddenly”
On January 5, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) tweeted about the unexpected passing of Quentin Williams, a Democratic member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. “Terrible news today of Q Williams sudden death,” he wrote. “I’m sending every good thought I have to his family and friends today.” Most of the replies to Murphy’s tweet echoed…