Kristi Noem Defends Killing Her Own Puppy

5 days 17 hours ago
Here at Mother Jones, we respect a wide spectrum of views when it comes to dogs. But a line must be drawn somewhere, and that somewhere is revealing that you killed your 14-month-old wirehair pointer for acting like a puppy. That’s what South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem admitted to in graphic detail in her forthcoming […]
Inae Oh

The Spy Inside Your Smartphone

5 days 18 hours ago
Known for its investigative reporting, El Faro has been referred to as “a breakthrough digital newspaper blazing an independent and ethical trail in Central America.” So when reporters at the Salvadoran news outlet noticed their cellphones acting strange all of a sudden—batteries draining, unexplained overheating—they had a weird feeling that someone was accessing their messages. […]
Mother Jones

Bill Barr Is Happy to Debase Himself for Donald Trump Again

5 days 18 hours ago
Once again, there’s not much love lost between Bill Barr and the man he accused of betraying the Oval Office, Donald Trump. When the former attorney general confirmed this week that he would support the Republican presidential ticket in November, his former boss took the opportunity to mock Barr as “slow-moving” and “lazy.”  “That’s classic Trump,” […]
Inae Oh

Beyond Pulling Donations

5 days 20 hours ago
Business executives who are concerned about antisemitism on college campuses have other options for influencing the schools’ actions, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes.
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bernhard Warner and Ravi Mattu

Saving Time

5 days 22 hours ago
The advice to live each day to its fullest can seem like a cliché, but figuring out how to actually do that can be pretty challenging.
Melissa Kirsch

Trump Would Gut and Privatize US Climate and Weather Agency, Experts Fear

5 days 22 hours ago
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate experts fear Donald Trump will follow a blueprint created by his allies to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), disbanding its work on climate science and tailoring its operations to business interests. Joe Biden’s presidency has increased the profile of the […]
Dharna Noor

SCOTUS v. Pregnant Patients: Idaho’s Abortion Fight Could Blow Up a “Revolutionary” Health Care Law

5 days 22 hours ago
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what could end up being its most consequential abortion decision since Dobbs. In a case pitting Idaho’s extreme abortion ban against a federal law known as EMTALA—that since 1986 has required hospitals to provide emergency care—conservative justices seemed to embrace the idea that states can deny […]
Nina Martin