America’s Billionaires Are Really Going to Hate This New Senate Bill
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Almost as predictably as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, the rich grow richer. “Wealth concentration in a few hands is the single most enduring economic pattern across all polities from…
How “Woke Capitalism” Became a Right-Wing Obsession
When the US targeted Russia’s oligarchs after the invasion of Ukraine, the trail of assets kept leading to our own backyard. Not only had our nation become a haven for shady foreign money, but we were also incubating a familiar class of yacht-owning, industry-dominating, resource-extracting billionaires. In the January + February 2024 issue of our magazine, we…
Climate Protesters Call Out US Banks Over Fossil Fuel Funding
An Extinction Rebellion protester is arrested in front of Citibank’s Manhattan headquarters on April 24.Gina M. Randazzo/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. As they exited their office in Tribeca on Monday afternoon, Citibank employees were confronted with a boisterous crowd chanting and dancing along to the music of a mariachi…
How the Story of Soccer Became the Story of Everything
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One afternoon last October, thousands of fans began gathering outside St. James’ Park, the 130-year-old home of the English soccer club Newcastle United, to celebrate a new beginning. Some sported the club’s traditional black-and-white striped jerseys. Others toted cases…
Who Poured $1 Billion Into Trump’s Media Empire? We Might Never Know.
AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Former President Donald Trump’s media company scored a coup over the weekend, announcing it had landed $1 billion in investment. But the public might never know who has funded Trump’s media dreams,…
Trump to Payday Lenders: Let’s Rip America Off Again
A cash advance provider in Orpington, Kent, UKGrant Falvey/London News Pictures/Zuma When South Dakotans voted 3–to–1 to ban payday loans, they must have hoped it would stick. Interest on the predatory cash advances averaged an eye-popping 652 percent—borrow a dollar, owe $6.50—until the state axed them in 2016, capping rates at a fraction of that in…
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