The Fight Over Captain America’s Legacy Isn’t Just Happening on TV
A Trump supporter wears a T-shirt referencing Captain America during a protest in Miami on November 5, 2020Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.So much of the drama in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,…
The GOP’s Black Friend Says America Is Not a Racist Country
Senate Television/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.“America is not a racist country,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C) boldly declared in his response to President Joe Biden’s Joint Address to Congress on Wednesday evening. If Biden jam…
The First 100 Days: How Joe Biden Is Giving Big Government a Big Shot in the Arm
Melina Mara/The Washington Post via AP, Pool Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In his 1981 inauguration speech, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed, “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” Nearly four decades…
I’m Angry That I’m Grateful That My Brother Survived a Traffic Stop
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.I don’t recall the date, but I know it was before COVID and before the world knew the name George Floyd. I know that I was undisturbed…
Robinhood Promises Free Trades. Did Alex Kearns Pay With His Life?
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Bill Brewster was sitting around a campfire with family on a Wisconsin vacation in June 2020 when he got the call. It was Dorothy Kearns, the mother of his cousin Alex.…
Climate Nothingburger Shows Republicans Need “a New PR Agency”
Brendan Fitterer/ Tampa Bay Times/ Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At a major summit hosted by Joe Biden last week, a procession…