What if the Progressive Revolt…Isn’t a Revolt at All?
WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 20: Rep. Pramila Jayapal speaks at Go Bigger on Climate, Care, and Justice! on July 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Shannon Finney/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Progressive lawmakers first suspected they’d…
This Workplace Rule Could Have Blunted the Opioid Epidemic. Then Congress Killed It.
Robin Rayne/ Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news outlet. In January 2001, relief was in sight for hundreds of thousands of American workers with pinched nerves, herniated discs, carpal…
“Even if You Win, You Stay Locked Up”: How ICE Uses Appeals to Keep Immigrants in Detention
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Sara Mendez-Morales had lost almost all hope. It was a cold stretch in early February, and she had spent nearly six months in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Butler County Jail, a…
NYC’s Private Garbage Industry Is Getting Overhauled. Can a Notorious Teamsters Local Clean Up Again?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Just after 4 one morning in the fall of 2019, long before COVID-19 upended New York City’s trash-hauling industry, a non-union sanitation worker and two organizers for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters convened over orange juice in…
Here’s Why the Bipartisan Police Reform Bill Was Always Going to Fail
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This week, two of only three Black US Senators threw in the towel on congressional police reform—a perfect embodiment of both government dysfunction and the lack of real commitment to systematically overhaul the way…
In an Emotional Hearing, Lawmakers Share Their Own Abortion Stories
U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) talks to members of the press after a House Democrats closed-door meeting at the U.S. Capitol September 27, 2021 in Washington, DC.Alex Wong/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.During a Thursday House Oversight Committee hearing about state…