The High Human Cost of America’s Sugar Habit
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It was 5 a.m. and still dark as we rolled west out of Santo Domingo, on a cool morning in May 2019. We rode through the tourist zone, past whitewashed Spanish colonial buildings, pointing our truck toward…
The Man Behind Saturday’s Pro-Trump Rally Once Praised a Far-Right Assassin
Matt Braynard, center, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in FebruaryJohn Raoux/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Editor’s note: This article first appeared in David Corn’s new newsletter, This Land. You can sign up for a free 30-day trial of This Land here.…
Residents of Western States Face a Dry, Dangerous, Underinsured Future
Burned-out cars near Janesville, California, on August 17, 2021 Patrick T. Fallon/AFP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When Steve Kress moved into an old ambulance he’d converted into a travel van some weeks ago, he’d started wearing a pin that reads “Since…
Vaccine Protests Prove the Only Personal Liberties Cops Care About Are Their Own
Julio Cortez/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.One of the biggest threats to public safety right now is the people who are charged with protecting it. As both the virus and the culture wars over how to end the pandemic rage, law…
Black Men Are Pushed to Pursue Sports. Why Not Medicine?
Former NFL player Nate Hughes, shown here in 2009, recently became a physician.Gray Quetti/Cal Sport/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Aaron Bolds didn’t consider becoming a physician until…
McKayla Maroney’s Powerful Testimony to Congress Shows the Uphill Battle Survivors Face
Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Six years have passed since the FBI was first presented with evidence of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of young gymnasts during a July 2015 meeting between leaders of USA Gymnastics and the FBI’s Indianapolis field…