Analysis: John Lewis' March On Washington Speech Is Still Relevant 57 Years Later

Nine years ago, Reveal reporters Nate Halverson and Ike Sriskandarajah broke the story that identified an unlikely contributor to Arizona’s water crisis: Saudi Arabia’s largest dairy company. Deep in the Arizona desert, the company, Almarai, was using huge amounts of water to grow hay—then shipping it back home to feed dairy cows. jQuery(document).ready(function(){prx("https:\/\/play.prx.org\/e?uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.revealradio.org%2Frevealpodcast&ge=prx_149_24d70457-587e-4139-a1fb-0c8f39b27be3", "prx-0", "shortcode")});Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Since then, the water shortage in the American West has only gotten worse, but corporate megafarms have continued to bleed Arizona’s wells dry.

Thousands of Coloradans responding to a survey by their local newsrooms say candidates competing for their votes this year need to be focused primarily on several broad issues: democracy and good government, the economy and cost of living, the environment, climate and natural resources, immigration and abortion. Which concerns weigh most heavily on respondents’ minds changes with their politics.

Moderate and liberal Denver Post readers agree: the nation’s democracy and good government are the most important issues in this year’s elections. But among conservative readers, far fewer are inclined to make those related issues their top priority heading into the 2024 election — even as they largely cast a skeptical eye toward elections themselves.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is becoming more and more mentally disturbed, and I have a theory why, which I explain in the video. But no matter the reason, this week she lost her mind threatening Dr. Fauci in hearings, tossing out profanities with a reporter, attacking her own party (it must be why they love her--they realy love her!) on soon-to-be jailed Steve Bannon. Marge is embarrassingly angry, even by the usual low standards we apply to her mental state.

When Biden plagiarized in 1987, it was a bad thing. Now, it’s the Democrat party norm.

Apparently, police are supposed to just walk away from naked, raving, hopped up on drugs maniacs in Minnesota.