Republicans Just Shot Down a Cap on Insulin Costs
SHERRY YATES YOUNG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Sunday, Senate Republicans struck down a proposal to cap out-of-pocket insulin costs for non-Medicare patients. The price of the century-old medication has tripled over two decades, forcing patients with diabetes to spend thousands…
Scientists Are Unraveling the Origins of the Southwest’s Monsoon
Gene Lower/ZUMA Press This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On an evening in late June, Alex Jimenez, Tucson Water’s artist-in-residence, hosted an outdoor art installation designed to “call the rain through sound.” The Santa Cruz Sound Experience, held underneath one of the bridges that crosses…
Here’s Why Jan. 6 Investigators Want to Get Their Hands on Alex Jones’ Phone
Briana Sanchez/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.An Austin, Texas, jury on Friday found that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook parents $45.2 million in punitive damages for broadcasting defamatory claims that the 2012 school massacre was a government plot—and that the…
No, You’re Not Dreaming. Congress Really Is on the Verge of Doing Something for the Planet.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during a press conference on the Inflation Reduction Act on Friday in Washington.Mariam Zuhaib/AP Senate Democrats’ climate and health care bill is one big step closer to becoming law after the body’s parliamentarian signed off on most of the package on Saturday morning. The “Inflation Reduction Act,” which Vox called “the biggest…
Human Pathogens Are Hitching a Ride on Floating Plastic
James Wakibia/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire This story was originally published by Hakai Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The plastics had only been submerged in the ocean off Falmouth, England, for a week, but in that time a thin layer of biofilm, a slimy mix of mucus and microbes, had already…
Kyrsten Sinema Is on Board With Democrats’ Climate and Tax Bill
Rod Lamkey/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), a crucial vote in an evenly divided Senate, announced last night that she would support a key piece of Biden’s legislative agenda—with some caveats. Last week, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a longtime holdout,…