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…
Friday Cat Blogging – 17 July 2020
Blogging has been slow for the past few days because my mother is now home from the hospital and I have taken up a second career as an eldercare nurse in training. This mostly means running around between doctors, making sure mom eats, and bullying her into doing some physical therapy. And to be honest,…
Try Listening to Yourself Like Studs Terkel Would
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Reeling from Lorrie Moore’s withering review of my generation in the New York Review of Books via a Sally Rooney takedown—is Moore right? Is she dead wrong? Is it both?! Why am I weeping?!—I needed a boost. So I went to Ben Fountain, who…
Federal Agents Invade Portland, Citing Trump’s Executive Order Protecting Statues
Federal agents patrol in Portland after dispersing a crowd protesting police brutality on Independence Day.Nathan Howard/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Portland has been invaded by federal agents—including unidentified, camouflage-clad officers who have emerged from unmarked minivans to arrest protesters. These officers have reportedly refused to say…