Who is David Pecker—and what'd he have to tell Trump's jury? (www.motherjones.com)
The Supreme Court is about to have a very busy week (www.motherjones.com)
New Hampshire's GOP are taking a stand—against the polio vaccine (www.motherjones.com)
UAW triumphs in Tennessee Volkswagen union vote (www.motherjones.com)
But on Friday, hourly workers at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, defied the long-standing barriers by voting overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers union (UAW). Late that night, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reported that 73 percent of the 3,600 workers at the manufacturing plant participated...
These Floridians rebuilt houses in flood zones. Now FEMA is cracking down. (www.motherjones.com)
Enforcement of the 50 percent rule largely falls to local officials in flood-damaged regions, who are charged with ensuring that their constituents aren’t rebuilding in flood zones. In exchange for this diligence, the federal government subsidizes low-cost flood insurance for homes in communities that certify their compliance...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's bill would end trading in water futures (www.motherjones.com)
Newt Gingrich perfectly describes how everything is his fault (www.motherjones.com)
A new police force chased a 17-year-old boy to his death. Then it vanished. (www.motherjones.com)
Then lights flashed behind him. The car he’d passed belonged to a white cop from the reservation’s brand-new tribal police department. Headquartered inside a former Subway restaurant, the department had launched just five months earlier with Covid relief funding—an attempt by the tribal nation’s chairman to address crime...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's bill would end trading in water futures (www.motherjones.com)
With private investors poised to profit from water scarcity in the west, US senator Elizabeth Warren and representative Ro Khanna are pursuing a bill to prohibit the trading of water as a commodity....
Indiana will test a highway that can charge moving vehicles (www.motherjones.com)
Sen. Rick Scott says he's a China hawk. But he's made lots of money with China-related investments. (www.motherjones.com)
Police loom as pro-Palestine students occupy Columbia University (www.motherjones.com)
Conservative groups are outraising Democrats on the state level—by a lot (www.motherjones.com)
Sen. Rick Scott Says He’s a China Hawk. But He’s Made Lots of Money With China-Related Investments. (www.motherjones.com)
In November, ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) issued a press release casting himself as a fierce opponent of China. It declared, “Since being elected to the U.S. Senate, Senator Scott has introduced dozens of bills to punish Communist China for its increased...
Amazon is capable of reducing plastic waste in the US. So why isn’t It? - It has done so elsewhere—when forced, a new report shows. (www.motherjones.com)
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Amazon is capable of reducing plastic waste in the US. So why isn’t It? - It has done so elsewhere—when forced, a new report shows. (www.motherjones.com)
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Conservative SCOTUS Justices: Why isn't DOJ treating Dobbs protesters like January 6 attackers? (www.motherjones.com)
The spectacular implosion of the Libertarian Party (www.motherjones.com)
Police loom as pro-Palestine students occupy Columbia University (www.motherjones.com)
Amazon is capable of reducing plastic waste in the US. So why isn’t It? - It has done so elsewhere—when forced, a new report shows. (www.motherjones.com)
Experts like Dana Miller, director of strategic initiatives at the nonprofit Oceana, would like Amazon to reduce plastics “because of a moral responsibility … to reduce their impact on the environment.” But the company has been slow to respond to moral appeals from customers and shareholders, including three shareholder...
A firm bought up land in a tiny Arizona town—then sold its water to a faraway suburb (www.motherjones.com)
Nearly a decade ago, Greenstone Resource Partners LLC, a private company backed by global investors, bought almost 500 acres of agricultural land here in Cibola. In a first-of-its-kind deal, the company recently sold the water rights tied to the land to the town of Queen Creek, a suburb of Phoenix, for a $14 million gross...