A Fugitive Chinese Mogul Spent Big to Overturn the 2020 Election
Mother Jones illustration; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty; Drew Angerer/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.A fugitive Chinese mogul who has worked closely with Steve Bannon—and who is under federal investigation for fraud—spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to support efforts to overturn the 2020…
America Can Cut Emissions in Half by 2030—if We Choose To
Wind turbines near Blairsburg, Iowa.Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Wire This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. You can’t see them or hear them, but there are huge, hidden forces propelling the United States into the energy future. Last year, the Biden administration committed to eliminating half the country’s greenhouse gas…
Why Haven’t We Figured Out How to Make IUDs Less Excruciating?
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On a scale of 1 to 10, Sarah Holzer considered the pain of breaking her tailbone a definite 10. That is, until 12 years later, when, at 27, she went in for her IUD insertion. She…
Insurrectionist Tells Judge Her Elite Credentials Should Keep Her Out of Prison
Simone Gold, with John Strand (left), uses a bullhorn to address protesters in the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.When Simone Gold was making her meteoric rise in the right-wing ecosphere, she…
Hundreds of Little Blue Penguins Washing Up Dead on New Zealand Beaches
Little blue penguins at a New Zealand preserve in 2021.Guo Lei/Xinhua via ZUMA Press This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The penguins lie in orderly, evenly spaced rows, wings splayed, their trademark glossy blue plumage dulled by sand. There are 183 in all, carefully collected by…
First Roe, Then Plyler? The GOP’s 40-Year Fight to Keep Undocumented Kids Out of Public School
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On August 31, 1977, Rosario Robles walked her five children to Bonner Elementary School in Tyler, Texas. Rosario and her husband, Jose, had immigrated to the United States from Mexico five years earlier and settled in…