What Will Brazil Do With Illegally Trafficked American Garbage?
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.This story was produced in collaboration with Columbia Journalism Investigations and UOL. It was republished in partnership with Mother Jones. A green squeegee. A plastic bottle half-filled with neon yellow liquid. Used geriatric diapers. Latex gloves.…
This Research Explains Why Equality in America Is So Elusive
Francescoch/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In an old Eastern European fable, God appears before an impoverished peasant named Vladimir and offers to grant him one wish—anything he wants. Vladimir is thrilled. But then God adds a caveat: Whatever he grants…
Labor Board Finds Merit in Union-Busting Allegations Against Amazon and Starbucks
Amazon JFK8 distribution center union organizer Jason Anthony speaks to media on Friday, April 1, 2022.Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Ever since workers at Starbucks and Amazon initiated the location-by-location process of unionizing, labor activists have accused both…
The Next President of the Philippines? The Son of a Dictator.
Aaron Favila/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The Philippines is poised to elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. its next president, elevating the son of a dictator to leader of the country. On Monday, with more than 86 percent of precincts reporting, Marcos…
Overturning Roe Will Ignite a Legal Civil War
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In his draft opinion overturning the constitutional right to an abortion, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito asserts that returning the question of abortion to the states would end difficult legal disputes over…
A US Government Loophole Is Helping Putin’s Cronies Hide Their Cash
Over the past four decades, private equity has become a powerful, and malignant, force in our daily lives. In our May/June 2022 issue, Mother Jones investigates the vulture capitalists chewing up and spitting out American businesses, the politicians enabling them, and the everyday people fighting back. Find the full package here. After Russia invaded Ukraine, Western nations hit back with…