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NurPhoto/Getty Voters in Washington state narrowly passed a measure to preserve “energy choice” and block the state from discouraging natural...
Mother Jones; Ayesha Firdaus; Getty In the last five years, as the movement to ditch gas-fueled stoves and heaters has spread across the...
Asheville, North Carolina, in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Helene in late September Mike Stewart/AP In August, political science professor...
Donald Trump speaks at the National Republican Congressional Committee Annual Spring Dinner on April 2, 2019, in Washington, DC. Mother Jones; Jim...
Marrisa George and Ramses Prashad vacation in the seventh season of "Love Is Blind." Netflix courtesy of IMDB.com Typically, I don’t watch...
Mother Jones; Matt Rourke/AP; Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty In a debate-night surprise, climate science got near-top billing during the vice presidential...
Mother Jones; Ron Adar/TheNEWS2/ZUMA On the campaign trail, Gov. Tim Walz is having a hell of a good time—at least rhetorically speaking. In his...
Heritage Foundation president Dr. Kevin Roberts, right, in conversation with New York Times reporter David Gelles at the Climate Forward event. Sophie...
STR/NurPhoto/AP After facing off against Donald Trump in June, President Joe Biden explained his poor debate performance in part by telling...
Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s parents attend a demonstration on August 29, 2024, by the families of the hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attack....
Mother Jones illustration; Nathan Howard/Sipa/AP, NOAA/AP In a personal, wide-ranging speech to close out the Democratic National Convention in...
Mother Jones illustration; Lev Radin/Sipa/AP; Getty When it comes to campaign messaging, Kamala Harris’ past as a prosecutor has served as both a...
Mother Jones; Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Zuma; Getty When I first skimmed through the Republican Party’s 2024 policy platform, a 16-page document titled...
Joe Raedle/Getty Even before the Supreme Court ruled late last month in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo , a lawsuit over a herring fishing...
Kyle Mazza/ZUMA Speaking to a crowd in Detroit, Michigan, on Friday, President Joe Biden made an impassioned plea to voters with a message that...
Andre M. Chang/ZUMA Over the years, Donald Trump has hardly been a responsible social media user: He’s railed against the “fake news media”...
Ephemeral streams in Chinle Valley, Arizona Marli Miller/Getty Last year, in one of the most significant environmental legal cases in recent...
Herring being unloaded from a fishing boat in Rockland, Maine Robert F. Bukaty/AP In one of the most highly anticipated decisions this term, the...
Mother Jones illustration; Gerald Herbert/AP(2) During Thursday’s presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald...
Álvaro Bernis In early May 2022, reproductive health researcher Liz Mosley was at a dinner celebrating her first day as an assistant professor at...
Mother Jones; Jack Kurtz/ZUMA; Spiegel & Grau Tom Steyer is skeptical of human kindness—at least as a means to positive global change. As he...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty After more than 50 years as a Schedule I substance, marijuana is slated to get reclassified. In a historic shift,...
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...