Joe Biden Just Made History and Picked Kamala Harris as His VP Candidate
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Former Vice President Joe Biden has officially selected Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate, and in doing so has made history, as Harris will be the first Black woman on a major party’s presidential ticket. Harris…
Please Excuse My Lack of Gratitude Over a Female Vice President
U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris Alex Wong/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Update: We know who he picked! It’s Kamala. Reading Kate Manne’s new book, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, during a particularly insipid conversation about woman-as-vice-president gives this feminist philosopher’s clear-eyed analysis of misogyny an element…
A Native American Artist’s Stunning Protest Mural Wins the “Art on the Streets” Award
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The 66-foot-tall painting depicts the artist’s 14-year-old daughter, her face covered by a handprint that symbolizes missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, on the side of a downtown Colorado Springs building. Painting as an act of protest and education is artist…
Millennials in Poverty? It Depends On How You Look.
Is this true? Millennials aren’t just the first generation set to do worse than our parents and our grandparents. If not for the (badly tattered) social safety net, we would be the most impoverished young adults since the Great Depression. — Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) August 11, 2020 Pretty much, yes. This is for 30-year olds:…
Police Forces Need to Stop Threatening to Lie Down on the Job
Image of Sports/Newscom via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti wants to crack down on loud, persistent house parties that are potential spreaders of COVID-19. How? By giving police who respond to complaints the authority to request that utilities at the property…
Billionaires Have Made an Absolute Killing During the Pandemic. The Number Is Staggering.
President Trump thinks he is delivering the average American a winning hand right now—despite a cratering economy, mass unemployment, and no clear plan to fight the cause of all this calamity, the coronavirus. At a Monday afternoon press conference at the White House, Trump went so far as to say that “carpenters and policemen and…