The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. Before the mass deportations. Before DOGE eviscerated government agencies, demoralized civil servants, and obliterated lifesaving aid […]

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. Alice Wong, disabled oracle and disability justice leader, died on November 14 at the age of […]

Zohran Mamdani will take the oath office at midnight and become New York’s next mayor, after the drift of the Bill de Blasio years and the scandals of Eric Adams.

I have spent part of the holidays doing a deep dive into my young grandchildren’s chosen selection of books and getting to know their pages very well – reading them more slowly and more times over than you would normally do with the average adult equivalent. As experts in the subject of children’s literature would […]

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We introduce a very festive issue and Toby Lichtig discusses the puppeteers pulling the strings of this season’s big productions

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Bill McKibben isn’t known for his rosy outlook on climate change. Back in 1989, he wrote The End of Nature, which is considered the first mainstream book warning of global warming’s potential effects on the planet. Since then, he’s been an ever-present voice on environmental issues, routinely sounding the alarm about how human activity is […]

One person was killed and three others were hospitalized after a shooting in East Los Angeles Tuesday night. Los Angeles County deputies responded to an area near Telegraph and Arizona in Commerce around 8:30 p.m. One person, a male adult, was found lying on the road. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Three other […]

After rainfall soaked Southern California on Christmas, another storm will arrive this week, beginning on New Year’s Eve. Rain is expected to arrive after midnight and anyone heading out for an early morning commute on Wednesday should prepare for slick conditions. “If you do have to drive tomorrow morning, give yourself plenty of time because […]

Famous for his tough-guy persona onscreen, 73-year-old actor Mickey Rourke is nearly $60,000 behind on rent and facing eviction, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday. Rourke, whose real name is Philip Andre Rourke Jr., was served a notice on Dec. 18 giving him three days to pay the back rent or leave the premises, the Los Angeles Times reported, and […]