Polio? Measles? Florida Is Flirting With an Anti-Vaccine Apocalypse
Mother Jones illustration; Rebecca Blackwell/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Dr. Mobeen Rathore has spent the better part of his career trying to protect the children in his practice from contracting deadly diseases like measles, whooping cough, and polio. As chief of the…
Minority Rule Is Coming for Progressive Prosecutors
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm. If the Republican candidate wins the election for Attorney General, he’s threatened to take Chisholm’s prosecutorial power away. Ivan Moreno/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a cloudy day in September, Eric Toney, the Republican candidate for Wisconsin…
Elon Musk Made It His Job To Make Himself Look Dumb
AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 1987, Oliver Stone released Wall Street. The film, in theory, was an indictment of the rapacious excess wrought by rising financialization. At the center was Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas. “The personification of…
Will Democrats Ever Wake Up to the Importance of State-Level Races?
Voting booths are set up at the Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office on the first day of early voting for the 2022 midterm general election in Orlando for the 2022 midterm elections.Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.More than any election…
Brian Kemp Is a Different Kind of Threat to Democracy
Mother Jones illustration; Robin Rayne/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a bright, crisp Saturday morning in late October, Stacey Abrams’ purple campaign bus arrived in Stone Mountain, Georgia. The city of 6,700 outside of Atlanta is best known for its nearby state park,…
UK Study Reveals Huge Emissions Gap Between Top 1% and Poorest
Getty Images This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The top 1 percent of earners in the UK are responsible for the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions in a single year as the bottom 10 percent emit over more than two decades, new data has…