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G7 Nations Are Ignoring the “Cow in the Room”—Beef and Dairy Emissions
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last week, the leaders of the world’s seven biggest economies convened in Italy to discuss several pressing global issues during the annual gathering known as the G7 summit. They agreed to lend Russia’s frozen assets to Ukraine, pushed for a ceasefire in Gaza, and pledged to launch a migration coalition.
Here’s How Biden Could Rattle Trump in Their First Debate
The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial of Our Land here.
Overturning Roe Didn’t Just Cut Off Access. It Sabotaged Science, Too.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In early May 2022, reproductive health researcher Liz Mosley was at a dinner celebrating her first day as an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine when the news broke: A leaked draft of the Dobbs decision revealed the Supreme Court’s plan to gut abortion rights in the United States—the “worst-case scenario,” as one dinner guest put it.
Finally, the American Climate Corps Is Getting Down to Business
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Within weeks, the nation will deploy 9,000 people to begin restoring landscapes, erecting solar panels, and taking other steps to help guide the country toward a cleaner, greener future. The first of...
Trad Wives Are Thriving in the Post-Dobbs Era
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last year, despite minding other people’s business online, I didn’t know what a “trad wife” was. Now it seems like every time I log in to Instagram or TikTok, there is another video of a beautiful woman cleaning her home or making an extraordinarily long and needlessly difficult meal. These trad wives, short for traditional wives, are women who post online content showing themselves adhering to patriarchal gender roles while keeping house and raising children—and making it look easy.
“The Dire Threat of Trump’s Ongoing Assault on Women’s Fundamental Freedoms”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On the eve of the two-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overruled Roe v. Wade, the Biden campaign is stepping up its messaging to voters about the stakes of the November election for reproductive rights.
From VP Hype to Immigrant Bashing, Trump’s Noise Machine Is on Full Blast
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Former President Donald Trump claims he has picked his running mate. He’s not revealing who that person is yet, of course. Trump told CNN and NBC on Saturday that he has not...
Melting? Fossil Fuels Have Made Extreme Heat 35 Times More Likely
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This weekend marks the official start of summer, and it’s shaping up to be a scorcher. The extreme heat that’s afflicted much of the eastern United States this week is set to continue, with temperatures hitting the mid to upper 90s in the Midwest and the Mid Atlantic regions. The National Weather Service reports that temperatures in the Midwest are “anomalous and dangerous for early Summer.” In the Southeast, temperatures could exceed 110 degrees. Making matters worse, overnight temps are expected to stay high, allowing little relief to those without access to air conditioning.
Youth Activists Score Huge Climate Win in Hawaii
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hawaii officials have announced a “groundbreaking” legal settlement with a group of young climate activists, which they said will force the state’s Department of Transportation to move more aggressively towards a zero-emission transportation system.
The Supreme Court Just Proved That Their Gun Rulings Have Been a Disaster
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In 2022, in a decision penned by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court announced a new approach to regulating firearms. Henceforth, the court declared in Bruen, gun laws would only pass Second Amendment muster if they are “consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
Why Bias Against Pro-Palestinian Protesters Matters for Everyone
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Thursday, committees at Stanford University published two reports on the campus climate following October 7. The publication comes just days after hundreds of pro-Palestinian students walked out in protest of the official graduation ceremony. The new reports, created by separate committees, are complex. Broadly, they delve into antisemitism and bias against Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians at the California university amid mass protests. But their lessons go far beyond the college campus.
Democrats Are Trying to Repeal a Zombie Law That Could Ban Abortion Nationwide
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. You may think medication abortion is safe from anti-abortion crusaders’ wrath after the Supreme Court swatted away a challenge to mifepristone—one of the two pills used in a medication abortion—last week.
Opposition to IVF Has Entered the GOP Mainstream
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. There was a time when Republicans said they were very supportive of in vitro fertilization. That time was late February. The Alabama Supreme Court had just ruled that frozen embryos are considered children...
Supreme Court Upholds Law Disarming Domestic Abusers
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Every 16 hours in the US, a woman is gunned down in an act of domestic violence. Nearly 1 million American women have been shot or shot at by a current or former intimate partner; some 4.5 million have been threatened with a gun. Those appalling numbers would be even higher if Congress hadn’t enacted laws over the past 50 years prohibiting certain categories of abusers from possessing firearms, the leading cause of death in domestic violence homicides.
The Surprising Connection Between Gut Health and Arctic Permafrost
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every time you eat a blueberry, the microbiome in your gut gets to work. Bacterial enzymes attack the organic compounds of the fruit: a burbling, gurgling digestive process that can, often to our embarrassment, cause us to pass gas. That may not be such a big deal for a human, but new research shows that the microbial action in icy Arctic soils might not be so different. On a global scale, it could mean the planet belching up more dangerous greenhouse gases.
America’s Best Made-Up Person
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Once upon a time there was a person with the unnoticeable name of Mary Harris, born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1937, who lived a private life of suffering and failure. Her parents, fleeing Ireland’s Great Hunger, brought her as a teenager to Canada, where she briefly attended a Toronto teachers’ school, before she went to Monroe, Michigan, where she briefly taught school in a convent. A skilled seamstress from a girl, she left Monroe for Chicago, where she opened a dress shop. But race riots in the aftermath of the Civil War made her move on yet again, to Memphis, where in 1861 she married George Jones, an organizer of his fellow iron foundry workers, to whom she quickly bore four children. Then her worst tragedy hit, the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1867, which wiped out all five members of her family. Back in Chicago, she reopened her dress shop, to have it destroyed by the Chicago Fire of 1871. Disaster had crowded on disaster throughout her entire blighted life, leaving no record of having done a single thing memorable.
About That IVF “Alternative” GOP Senators Are Trying to Fund
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last week, Senate Republicans introduced a bill that would designate federal funds for “Restorative Reproductive Medicine,” a loose group of therapies meant to help treat infertility without the use of in vitro fertilization or artificial insemination. The seven lawmakers who introduced the Reproductive Empowerment and Support through Optimal Restoration (RESTORE) Act, say it isn’t meant as an attack on IVF, which recently has come under fire by conservatives. “I strongly support treatments such as IVF, which have helped so many families experience the miracle of life,” Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), one of the bill’s sponsors, said in a statement last week. “Healing the actual causes of infertility will only help increase the success rate for couples trying to conceive.”
He’s a Car Dealer With a Surprising Business Record. He’s Also Running for Senate in Ohio.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The 2015 Aston Martin Vulcan can go from zero to 60 in 2.9 seconds and maxes out at 208 mph. Only 24 of the two-door, two-seater carbon-fiber British speedsters were ever made, each with a $2.3 million price tag.
Fish, Toads, and John Eastman: Inside the Conservative Project to Undo Federal Environmental Laws
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Among the most consequential decisions in the hands of the Supreme Court this term is a pair of lawsuits involving herring fishermen. On the surface, the nearly identical cases are simple disputes about fishing regulations. But they also have the potential to completely rejigger how federal agencies mediate everything from food and agriculture to taxes and air pollution—because they call into question one of the legal field’s most-cited legal precedents, a 40-year-old doctrine called “Chevron deference.” Many conservatives have sought to kill the legal doctrine for over a decade. And within the chorus, one has sung with notable passion: John Eastman.
New Connecticut Law Aims to Support Victims of Sexual Assault—and Prevent Them From Being Treated Like Suspects
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A landmark bill aimed at standardizing and improving the way police treat victims in the aftermath of a sexual assault has become law in Connecticut. The new law establishes a council that will...
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