OSHA Found Risk Factors at an Amazon Warehouse Where a Tornado Killed Workers. The Agency Is Not Going to Punish Anyone.
Crews use an excavator to pull down pieces of a damaged roof during search and rescue operations at the Amazon distribution center in Eadwardsville, Illinois, on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, after overnight severe storms caused the building to partially collapse. Daniel Shular/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS via ZUMA Press Wire Facts matter: Sign up for the free…
Hazing, Fighting, Sexual Assaults: How Valley Forge Military Academy Devolved Into “Lord of the Flies”
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On a chilly evening in September 2020, Jordan Schumacher solemnly patrolled the grounds of Valley Forge Military Academy, near his wit’s end. Weeks earlier, the school’s top brass had elevated the 20-year-old college sophomore to the…
The Ivy League’s Reckoning With Slavery Is Long Overdue
A 1764 engraving of Princeton’s Nassau Hall (left) and President’s House, where the enslaved servants of a deceased campus president were to be auctioned off in 1766.Henry Dawkins/Princeton University Archives Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In a report released on Tuesday,…
Charges Connected to Trump White House Are Part of a Broader Probe Into Qatar Influence
Richard Olson in 2012 before a hearing on his nomination as US ambassador to Pakistan.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.A former US Ambassador to Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates faces criminal charges for joining in a secret…
MAGA’s Knives Are Out for Kevin McCarthy
Anna Moneymaker/ZUMA Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.It’s no secret that politicians have a shaky relationship with the truth. But few have been caught in such glaring, bald-faced lies as Kevin McCarthy. After the top Republican categorically denied a New York…
The Folly of Ramping Up American Gas Exports to Europe
The Marvel Crane, a liquid natural gas carrier, at an LNG terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana.US Coast Guard/Flickr This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the span of weeks, Russia’s war on Ukraine has created millions of refugees, transformed the geopolitical landscape, upended global energy markets and…