Could America be Headed for Another Dust Bowl?
epicurean/Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Growing up in rural Iowa in the 1990s, Isaac Larsen remembers a unique herald…
Four Months After Deadly January 6 Attack, National Guard Troops Are Leaving the Capitol
National Guard troops walking in the US Capitol in April.Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA via AP Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.More than 2,000 National Guard troops are packing up and leaving the Capitol Sunday, more than four…
Biden Will Extend Temporary Protected Status for Haiti, Offering Relief for Some 150,000 People
Children hold signs in support of renewing Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Central America and Haiti, in Miami in November 2017.AP Photo/Lynne Sladky Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Haitian immigrants currently living in the United…
Good News! New Data Confirms Pfizer Vaccine Is Highly Effective Against Two Variants
May 21, 2021. Student nurse Dario Gomez, center, disinfects a chair after administering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a patient at Providence Edwards Lifesciences vaccination site in Santa Ana, Calif. U.S.AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap…
Democrats Seek $30 Billion to Prevent Utility Shutoffs for Poor Customers
Vyacheslav Dumchev/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Legislation to cancel utility debts for millions of low-income households and bail out struggling utility…
CNN Fires Rick Santorum Over Claim That White Settlers Found “Nothing” in America
Tom Williams/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Since 2017, Rick Santorum has had a pretty plum gig as a CNN commentator, but got the axe this weekend after making the ill-advised comment that there was “nothing”…