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The Script That Made Steven Seagal Cry | Chapo Trap House
Chapo Trahouse • Sep 24, 2025

The Script That Made Steven Seagal Cry | Chapo Trap House

How America’s Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers—and Misery
Mother Jones • Sep 24, 2025

How America’s Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers—and Misery

To say that Justin Portela never imagined himself as a highly paid business consultant at McKinsey & Company would be an understatement. He didn’t have a privileged upbringing, to put it mildly, and in 2018, when he first walked onto the Stanford University campus, Portela, like most incoming freshmen, was unaware such careers even existed. […]

“Godsend” or “Concentration Camp”? A Lucrative ICE Deal Divides a Colorado Town.
Mother Jones • Sep 24, 2025

“Godsend” or “Concentration Camp”? A Lucrative ICE Deal Divides a Colorado Town.

In January 2010, the private prison operator now known as CoreCivic announced the closure of a 752-bed facility in Walsenburg, Colorado. At the time, the Huerfano County Correctional Center was the second-largest employer in the county. Its shutdown caused a “major hit” to the economy, said John Galusha, then the county’s administrator. The town estimated […]

US Marshals’ Efforts Around Trump’s January 6 Pardons Were “Highly Unusual”
Mother Jones • Sep 24, 2025

US Marshals’ Efforts Around Trump’s January 6 Pardons Were “Highly Unusual”

As the US Marshals Service prepared for Donald Trump’s expected pardon of January 6 defendants, officials went to unusual lengths to facilitate the defendants’ travel home from the DC jail, newly obtained records show. The records, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by the ethics watchdog CREW, are yet another window into the […]

Alabama’s Poet Laureate Reckons with Personal and Political Grief
Mother Jones • Sep 24, 2025

Alabama’s Poet Laureate Reckons with Personal and Political Grief

In 2023, while on a group hike through the Sipsey River, Ashley M. Jones, Alabama’s youngest and first Black poet laureate, sat in a clearing and wrote the titular poem of her new book, Lullaby for the Grieving. Just before she was named poet laureate in 2021, Jones’ father, Donald Lewis Jones, died without warning. […]

Big Utilities Are Even Worse on Climate Than They Were Five Years ago
Mother Jones • Sep 24, 2025

Big Utilities Are Even Worse on Climate Than They Were Five Years ago

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Since 2021, the Sierra Club has been grading US utilities on their commitment to a clean-energy transition. While most utilities have not earned high marks on the group’s annual scorecards, as a whole they had been showing some progress.  That’s over now. […]

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