A Bird Named for a Confederate General Sparks Calls for Change
A bird watcher looks through binoculars at sunrise.Bob Wick/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in Undark and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Across the United States, people are pushing for the removal of Confederate officers’ names from buildings, schools,…
John Lewis Was Once Dismissed Even by His Allies. Now He’s Praised by Everyone, Give or Take a President.
John Lewis on December 6, 2019.Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Civil rights hero John Lewis, 80, very much still needed, died Friday of pancreatic cancer. He had helped in the early 1960s to pioneer the regime of nonviolent confrontation in the…
Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: July 17 Update
Here’s the coronavirus death toll through July 17. No changes since the day before. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here. The Public Health Agency of Sweden is here.
John Lewis’ Legacy Is the Right to Vote. And It’s Under Attack.
John Lewis speaks during the Annual Bloody Sunday March across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 1, 2020.JOSHUA LOTT/AFP via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On March 1, as he was battling stage 4 cancer, John Lewis returned to Selma, Alabama, to…
Meet the 21-Year-Old Explaining the Science Behind Your Favorite TikTok Hits
Mother Jones Illustration For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.What is it about “Say So” by Doja Cat that makes you want to dance? Why does “Ribs” by Lorde make me feel nostalgic? What makes “Love on Top” by Beyoncé so good? Music bombards our brains, causing us…
How Chad Wolf Became Donald Trump’s New Made-for-TV Enforcer
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf. Andrew Harnik/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Back in November, I explained how Chad Wolf, the acting Homeland Security secretary President Trump now fawns over, got his job. The short answer was incompetence: In April, President Donald Trump got rid of…