Thanks to Inflation, You’re Spending $460 More Per Month. Here’s Where the Money is Going And Why
Elinor Mantin shops for groceries at Lorenzo’s Supermarket in North Miami, Florida in 2008.Joe Raedle/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In June, the average price of gas in the US surpassed $5 for the first time in history. That grim milestone wreaked…
“There Wouldn’t Be a Bolsonaro in Brazil if There Hadn’t Been a Trump in the United States”
Demonstration in defense of democracy and against President Jair Bolsonaro in São Paulo.Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On August 11, thousands of Brazilians gathered inside and outside of the University of São Paulo’s law school to follow along with the reading of…
Greg Abbott Bused Thousands of Migrants from Texas to DC. What Happened Once They Arrived?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Early Saturday morning, the room on the fourth floor of the Washington, DC, church is full. It’s not yet 7 a.m. and already about sixty migrants, mostly men and a handful of families with children, some women breastfeeding, sit…
Allen Weisselberg, Donald Trump’s Longtime CFO, Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud
Allen Weisselberg, right, stands behind Donald Trump during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Jan. 11, 2017.Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The longtime chief financial officer of Donald Trump’s company pleaded guilty to 15 felony charges…
The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would Unleash Violence Was Absolutely Right
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On the afternoon of February 1, 2016, as Iowa voters prepared for that evening’s caucuses, Bandy Lee sat by the bedside of her mother, who was terminally ill with cancer. An assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Yale, Lee…
The IRA Gives USPS Billions to Buy Electric Vehicles
This Grumman ‘Long Life Vehicles’ is not long for this world.Mark Hertzberg/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden signed into law this week, includes a windfall for the United States Postal Service: $1.29 billion for the purchase of…