Mother Jones: YouTube (1:49) Inside the World’s Largest Solar Boat

Step Inside the World’s Largest Solar Boat The solar plane will land in New York City soon, but its water-borne counterpart is already here: Early this week the world’s largest solar-powered boat steamed into lower Manhattan and docked in small marina, usually reserved for multimillion dollar yachts, in the shadow of the new World Trade …

Mother Jones: Latin American Nations Distance Themselves from USA, Debate Legalizing Marijuana

Latin American Nations Debate Legalizing Pot —By Josh Harkinson Mon Jun. 10, 2013 At last week’s annual summit of the Organization of American States, Latin American leaders distanced themselves from the United States’ drug policies and agreed to consider the widespread legalization of marijuana. The OAS summit “was really a tipping point for this movement” …

Mother Jones: Exclusive on Koch Brother’s Game Plan

Exclusive: The Koch Brothers’ Million-Dollar Donor Club By Gavin Aronsen Mother Jones, Tue Sep. 6, 2011 Read our inside account of the Koch brothers’ Vail seminar, and listen to the exclusive audio. Twice a year, the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch host secretive retreats for an exclusive list of corporate America’s rich and …