Supreme Court Has Just Ruled the Biden Administration Can End Remain in Mexico Policy
Migrants wait in line to get a meal in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico.Veronica G. Cardenas/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In one of the biggest immigration cases before the Supreme Court, and the last case…
The Supreme Court Limits the EPA’s Ability to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post/Zuma Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to restrict the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate planet-warming emissions. The case, West Virginia v. EPA, considered whether the Clean Air Act gives the EPA…
This Is What It Was Like to Be an Abortion Escort Before Roe Ended
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.All across the country, with its wildly uneven distribution of reproductive health services, anti-abortion protesters continue to wage a war of attrition against abortion access—often transforming the public spaces in front of clinics into hostile zones…
I’m an Abortion Provider in Texas and I’m Now Forced to Consider: Is This “Life-Threatening Enough”?
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.As the federal right to abortion—and, by extension, the right to practice that aspect of gynecological care—has been destroyed, abortion providers in hostile states are reckoning with the very real possibility that their jobs may soon…
The Supreme Court Just Expanded States’ Power to Prosecute Crimes on Tribal Land
STRMX/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Oklahoma has the authority to prosecute non-Native people who commit crimes against a Native person on tribal lands. The justices, in a 5-4 decision, said that both the…
The Lessons From the Right’s 50-Year-Long Crusade to Limit the Freedom of Women
Jose Luis Magana/AP Editor’s note: This column by David Corn first appeared in his newsletter, Our Land. But we wanted to make sure as many readers as possible have a chance to see it. Our Land is written by David twice a week and provides behind-the-scenes stories about politics and media; his unvarnished take on the events of the day;…