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Pharma Giant Roche Hires Trump to Sell Swanky Condo

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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?

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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.

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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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Environmentalists Sue to Stop Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Deportation Center

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Deep in the Everglades, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration has swiftly begun construction of an ICE detention center on an airfield surrounded by wetlands that will house up to 1,000 detainees and could open as soon as next week. In a Friday interview with Fox News, DeSantis called the new center “Alligator Alcatraz” and said […]

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The Collapse of the World’s Coral Reefs is “Death by a Thousand Cuts”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Kenyan marine ecologist David Obura is chair of a panel of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the world’s leading natural scientists. For many decades, his speciality has been corals, but he has warned that the […]

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Presses Oil Firms on Lobbying for a Huge Tax Break in the Budget Bill

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Democratic lawmakers led by the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren are pressing two energy companies about their efforts to “win a $1.1 billion tax loophole” in Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. The proposed exemption, which Senate Republicans inserted into their version of […]

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Trump Once Said Congress Should “Always” Approve Military Strikes

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At nearly 8 p.m ET Saturday, President Donald Trump delivered shocking news that would quickly rouse global angst about the threat of nuclear war. He did so on social media. “A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow,” he thumbed out on Truth Social about three Iranian nuclear enrichment sites that […]

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The Supreme Court Just Weakened a Key Civil Rights Law

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The headline from the Supreme Court on Thursday is that the GOP-appointed justices green lit efforts by Republican-controlled states to defund Planned Parenthood by withholding Medicaid funding. The decision imperils the health of millions, denying Medicaid patients access to their preferred provider and shoe-horning patients to a smaller number of available doctors. This is a […]

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