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Lost in the Crowd: The Hidden Biases of Medical Fundraising

Mother Jones; Marc Studer More than 100 million Americans have medical debt, with half owing more than $2,000; disabled people are twice as likely...

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Julia Métraux

Climate Scientists Ponder: “Do I Really Want to Bring a Child Into This World?”

Environmental scientist Shobha Maharaj in San Fernando, Trinidad, where attempt to preserve the coastline are underway. Kelly Ann Bobb/The Guardian...

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Damian Carrington

Tribal Leaders Ban Gov. Kristi Noem from Twenty Percent of South Dakota

Ron Sachs/CNP/Zuma Governor Kristi Noem has had a tough stretch…of her own making.  Ahead of the publication of her new book last week, No Going...

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Julianne Mcshane

UN Officials Describe “Absolutely Catastrophic” Conditions in Gaza

Displaced Palestinians from Rafah arrive in Khan Yunis after Israel's evacuation order. Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/AP Humanitarian officials are warning...

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Julianne Mcshane

Hammerheads Sharks Are Back in the Caribbean: “I Could Not Believe It”

Josh Schellenberg/Media Drum World/Zuma This story was originally published by Hakai  and is reproduced here as part of the  Climate Desk ...

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David Shiffman

Melania Trump Says Hell No to Barron Serving as a GOP Delegate

Andrew Harnik/AP Barron Trump’s political debut has been shelved—for now—after his mother, Melania Trump, effectively rebuffed an invitation for...

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Inae Oh

Israel Orders New Rafah Evacuations

Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Israel on Saturday ordered hundreds of thousands in Rafah to evacuate immediately as Israeli military forces prepared to...

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Inae Oh

Why RFK Jr.’s Brain Worm and Other Parasites Deserve Your Respect

Estelle Caswell/Grist This story was originally published by  Grist and is reproduced here as part of the  Climate Desk collaboration. When...

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Jesse Nichols

The Founder of Mother’s Day Mostly Cared About Her Own Mother

Mother Jones; AP; Getty It seems like such a simple idea: a day to honor the women who bring life into the world. But  how do we square the ideal...

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Nina Martin

Virginia Board Votes to Rename Schools Back to Honoring Confederate Military Leaders

A worker attaches a rope as they prepare to remove the statue of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson from its pedestal on July 1, 2020, in...

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Arianna Coghill

Steve Bannon Still Isn’t in Prison, but He’s a Little Closer

Steve Bannon, a free man, on February 24, 2024, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. Ron Sachs/Zuma Steve Bannon’s odds...

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Dan Friedman

Modern-Day Lessons From Hiroshima

Editor’s note:  The below article  first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the...

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David Corn

The Emperor Had Very Few Clothes

Mother Jones; Craig Ruttle/AP At the hush-money trial of former president Donald Trump in Manhattan, Stormy Daniels’ story is, in a sense, a...

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Tim Murphy

Moms for Liberty Accuses Schools of Antisemitism. The Irony is Rich.

FILE - Moms for Liberty founder Tiffany Justice speaks at the Republican Party of Florida Freedom Summit, Nov. 4, 2023, in Kissimmee, Fla. Moms for...

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Kiera Butler

How Paul Manafort Tried To Make Money With a Project Supposedly Tied to the Chinese Regime

Seth Wenig/AP In March, the politerati were atwitter over what appeared major news: Longtime political operator, lobbyist, wheeler-dealer, and (...

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David Corn

More Than a Million Adults Have Legal Guardians. Seven States Won’t Let Them Vote.

Tèa Kvetenadze/New York Daily News/Getty Last month, the Department of Justice released new guidance reaffirming disabled people’s right to vote,...

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Julia Métraux

The Future of Natural History Is Here—and It’s Open-Source

Scanned specimens from the oVert project. Photo courtesy of the openVertebrate Project It’s 1963. You’re an African spiny mouse in Egypt. You...

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Henry Carnell

Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse

Mother Jones; Getty Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung spent four years in medical school, four years in an OB-GYN residency, and three years in a...

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Abby Vesoulis

The UK’s New Study on Gender Affirming Care Misses the Mark in So Many Ways

Protesters gathered in August 2021 outside the office of the Prime Minister demanding an end to discrimination against the trans community in the...

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Henry Carnell

Vermont Could Be the First State to Bill Oil Firms for Climate Damage

Flood waters block a street in Barre, Vt on July 12, 2023. Charles Krupa/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced...

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Dharna Noor

Environmentalists Are Having a Cow Over Tyson Foods’ “Climate Friendly” Beef

Sina Schuldt/dpa/Zuma This story was originally published by  Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the  Climate...

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Georgina Gustin

A Gay Couple Is Suing New York City Over IVF Denial

Mother Jones; Getty The city of New York is discriminating against its gay male employees by denying them the same health care benefits as women...

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Pema Levy And Patrick Caldwell

Can Michael Flynn Help Put a January 6 Rioter in Congress?

January 6 rioter and West Virginia congressional candidate Derrick Evans (left), on stage with former Trump National Security Advisor Michael...

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Stephanie Mencimer

Republican-Led States Across the Country Are Copying Texas’s Radical Anti-Immigration Law

Governors Greg Abbott of Texas, Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, and Kim Reynolds of Iowa. Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA On April 30, Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt of...

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Isabela Dias

A Nurse on the Scene Inside Rafah’s Last Maternity Hospital

Mother Jones; Getty; photo courtesy of Bridget Rochios At  the last maternity and neonatal hospital in Rafah, the devastation has already arrived....

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Julianne Mcshane

An Epic Battle Over 1 Mile of Land in Wisconsin Is Tearing Environmentalists Apart

Press conference at Wisconsin Public Service Commission against the ATC Line, on June 26, 2019. Howard Learner Judge William M. Conley watched as...

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Henry Carnell

Report: Trump Promised to Scrap Climate Laws if US Oil Bosses Donated $1 Billion

On January 24, 2017, President Donald Trump, signs a January 2017 executive order to push ahead construction of the controversial Keystone XL...

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Ed Pilkington

Navigating Farm and Ranch Transfers to a New Generation

The Nelson family of Oroville, Washington, says that as they weathered hard economic times in the cattle business, they often felt pressure to...

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