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“Sinners” is Bringing Black American Sign Language to the Mainstream

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners will be the first movie on a streaming platform that will also be available in Black American Sign Language at the time of its digital release when it hits HBO Max on the Fourth of July. “By amplifying Black Deaf voices and honoring the culture, identity, and history at the heart of […]


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Even Sky-High Income Tax Rates Won’t Stop the Relentless Rise of the Richest

Will Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” as critics contend, be a massive giveaway to the rich? Absolutely, when you tally it up. Yet the bill’s provisions, while devastating to the nation’s poorest, represent only modest gains for the majority of affluent families. Consider the merely rich—the top-earning 10 percent of households. The Congressional Budget […]


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Ban on AI Regulations in Trump’s Tax Bill Carries a Huge Environmental Cost

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republicans are pushing to pass a major spending bill that includes provisions to prevent states from enacting regulations on artificial intelligence. Such untamed growth in AI will take a heavy toll upon the world’s dangerously overheating climate, experts have […]


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Senate Version of “Beautiful” Bill Will “Kill” America’s Clean Energy Sector, Experts Say

The Senate version of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” unveiled to the public at Midnight on Friday, went even further than the House version in its hostility toward the nation’s burgeoning renewable energy sector. The House version merely seeks to end the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) subsidies for wind and solar development enacted […]


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Dear Joe Rogan, Kash Patel Played You

Dear Joe Rogan, I don’t know you. We’ve never met, and I am not a regular listener of your podcast. But I have the impression you are a man who does not like to be played. I regret to inform you that Kash Patel played you. When the FBI director was on your show last […]


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Pharma Giant Roche Hires Trump to Sell Swanky Condo

Donald Trump’s realty firm is representing one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical companies in its effort to offload a $12 million New York condo—an arrangement that represents yet another apparent conflict of interest for the 47th president of the United States. The condo on the 39th floor of the Trump International Hotel and Tower at […]


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How Viability Limits End Up Criminalizing Pregnancy

When Karen Thompson became the legal director at Pregnancy Justice a year and a half ago, she was still learning about the reproductive justice issues at the heart of the organization’s mission. But after 20 years focused on the criminal justice system, first at the Innocence Project, then at the ACLU of New Jersey, she […]


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These New England Fishermen Made Peace With Offshore Wind. Trump Wants to End It.

This story was produced by the independent, nonprofit newsroom Canary Media and co-published by Mother Jones. Gary Yerman, 75, sat nervously in a noisy ballroom in Virginia Beach, Virginia, counting down the minutes until he could shed his ill-fitting double-breasted suit for a sun shirt and blue jeans. He introduced himself as a fisherman of […]


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The Bezos-Sánchez Hangover

As the dust settles in Venice, where some of the world’s richest gathered to bless the union of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, I’m wondering what to make of the multi-day affair. Plenty has already been written about the blinding tackiness of each event; in terms of ostentatiousness, it met my expectations. But even as […]


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Elon Musk Rips Into Trump’s “Utterly Insane” Tax Bill Again

After a brief interlude, Elon Musk on Saturday resumed his public wrestling match with President Donald Trump, ripping into the president’s domestic policy bill as “utterly insane and destructive” just as the Senate met to vote on a key procedural step to pass the “big beautiful bill.” “The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions […]


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Firefighting Foams Contain Toxic Chemicals. Why Not Switch to Soybeans?

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Jeff King has served on the volunteer fire department in Corydon, Kentucky, for over 30 years. He is well aware of the dangers of the job—including one that may be hiding in the supplies he and his crew use to […]


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Hungary Banned Pride Events. Thousands Marched Anyway.

Earlier this year, Hungary’s parliament passed legislation banning Pride events and allowing the use of facial recognition technology to identify attendees. The ban is supported by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a conservative nationalist and Trump ally whose regime has been widely described as anti-democratic. Orbán has for years decried “gender insanity” and “woke globalists,” the […]


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