How Explosives, a Robot, and a Sled Expose a “Doomsday” Glacier
A portion of the Thwaites Glacier. Erin PettitThis story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Two Decembers ago, Erin Pettit layered up, slapped on goggles, cued up an audio book, and went on a hike—across Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Behind her, she dragged a sled loaded with a ground-penetrating radar,…
Newly Released Documents Show Just How Much Trump Officials Meddled With the Census
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Former president Donald Trump made no secret of his interest in meddling with the 2020 Census. But newly released documents show the extraordinary measures his political appointees took to alter the outcome—and the strong…
DirecTV Just Announced It Will Drop Trump’s Favorite Far-Right News Network
Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The far right-wing One America News Network will lose the vast majority of its distribution in April, thanks to a decision by DirecTV to drop the conspiracy-spouting pro-Trump channel. On…
Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Gerrymandered Congressional Maps
Members of the Ohio Senate Government Oversight Committee hear testimony on a new map of state congressional districts at the Ohio StatehouseJulie Carr Smyth/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In a 4–3 decision Friday, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected the state’s new…
Working in the Service Industry Always Sucked. During a Pandemic, It’s Unbearable.
In our January + February 2022 cover story, we attempted to answer a simple question: What the hell happened to labor since the pandemic began? It wasn’t one thing. But this package—through a series of worker stories as told in their own voices, interviews with experts, and dissections of media narratives—attempts to make sense of the…
The Pandemic Has Been Hard for Women Workers. A Labor Economist Breaks It Down for Us.
In our January + February 2022 cover story, we attempted to answer a simple question: What the hell happened to labor since the pandemic began? It wasn’t one thing. But this package—through a series of worker stories as told in their own voices, interviews with experts, and dissections of media narratives—attempts to make sense of the…