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Andy Lyons/Getty Happy Easter! I’m not a particularly religious adult, and I have no kids, so I signed up for weekend blogging duty this Sunday....
Last night, Saturday Night Live parodied Donald Trump’s effort to sell Bibles: The Easter-themed episode opens with “The Resurrection,” a story...
Bettmann/Getty Last July, in a win for reproductive justice advocates, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty There’s a laundry list of ways air pollution is bad for humans: It’s linked to cardiovascular disease and...
Russian President Vladimir Putin Contributor/Getty Things got heated at the United Nations on Saturday during a meeting of the Security Council...
As I watched Donald Trump’s South Carolina victory speech this weekend, I was struck by how many back-handed compliments he doled out to his...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Donald Trump decisively won South Carolina’s GOP primary election against challenger Nikki Haley on Saturday, with...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty; NASA/JPL-Caltech On September 5, 1977, a 1,800-pound, ladle-shaped spacecraft named Voyager 1 took off from...
A flare burns at Venture Global LNG in Cameron, Louisiana. Martha Irvine/AP In a major win for environmentalists, the Biden administration announced...
Graeme Sloan/AP Idaho has among the strictest abortion bans in the country. It’s so strict, in fact, that in 2022, the Biden administration sued...
Ricky Fitchett/Zuma On Friday, ahead of the third anniversary of the January 6 Capitol attack, President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned campaign...
The black-footed ferret has been listed as an endangered species in the United States since the 1960s. AP/David Zalubowski After weeks of dithering,...
Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in “Killers of the Flower Moon." Apple TV After a screening of Martin Scorsese’s slow-drip drama Killers of...
Vito Ansaldi It’s been a hell of a year for science scandals. In July, Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a prominent...
Mother Jones; Library of Congress; Unsplash If you attended high school in the United States, you likely learned about the “Great Slaughter” of...
Mother Jones; Getty As perilous as it is for you to ride in a vehicle, cars may be even more treacherous for wild animals on the road. “It has...