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The publisher of CHEST, a prestigious, peer-reviewed medical journal focused on respiratory health, received a letter from the Trump administration...
Last week, a small group of protesters gathered on the steps of the flagship New York Public Library in Manhattan’s Bryant Park to “Kill the...
On March 10, around 9:20 pm, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, an environmental health professor at Columbia University, got the email she’d been...
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at “protecting” American energy from “state overreach.” The move, some...
On Friday, protesters gathered in Washington, DC, and at more than 30 satellite protests nationwide in what appears to be the largest pro-science...
More than 120 years ago, in November 1901, German doctor Alois Alzheimer took on a patient—a 51-year-old woman with “presenile dementia,”...
On Tuesday, leaders at the National Science Foundation reportedly laid off about 170 employees, many via Zoom—an estimated 10 percent of the...
On Friday, a federal judge partly blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to root out programs related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI,...
Protesters gathered in New York City's Washington Square Park on February 19 to protest the Trump administration's cuts to research funding....
Chrystal Starbird, a cancer researcher at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, had been preparing to serve on her first National...
On Tuesday, Los Angeles County caught fire. Driven by unusually strong Santa Ana winds, as my colleagues report, five fires have ignited some 27,000...
Sonja Wild/UC Davis So much of this year felt like a fever dream: The attempted assassination of Donald Trump. A career-ending presidential debate....
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Over the years, Donald Trump hasn’t exactly been a champion of science. As president and on the campaign trail, he...
NurPhoto/Getty Voters in Washington state narrowly passed a measure to preserve “energy choice” and block the state from discouraging natural gas—...
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 reality...
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....
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...
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” while...