Detroit Teens Are Teaming Up to Paint Murals of Justice
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Artists are doing their best in Detroit, and around the country, to celebrate the progress and inspire more like it as the protests against police violence and racial injustice continue. Dozens of teens are using paint rollers to create a massive mural…
Creativity in Quarantine: Dissonant New Music for the Birthday Blues
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Adapting creatively in quarantine is a challenge for artists everywhere, but today brings cause for celebration: the release of new music and the birthday of its composer. Happy release day and birthday to the relentlessly imaginative New York musician Stern. His new…
Trump Refuses to Say Whether He Ordered to Slow Down Coronavirus Testing
President Donald Trump sent his aides scrambling this weekend after his trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he revealed during his first campaign rally since the lockdown that he had recently ordered health officials to “slow down” coronavirus testing. Trump’s logic for scaling back a crucial tool for fighting the pandemic was that testing—rather than relaxed social…
Half of the Country Is Seeing New Coronavirus Spikes. So Naturally, Trump Is Returning to Denialism.
Tyler Tomasello/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Coronavirus cases continue to soar across the country, with more than half of US states recording new spikes this week. But as the numbers tick upward and communities emerge from lockdown, President Trump and his allies are resorting to the…
Just Extend the Damn Benefits
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Jason DeParle tells the story of Melody Bedico, a single mother in Seattle who worked as a clerk at an airport hotel until the hotel closed: Though she immediately applied for unemployment insurance, Ms. Bedico got no help for two months. Multiple…
Kentucky Slashes Number of Polling Places Ahead of Primary—Especially Where Black Voters Live
Senate candidate Charles Booker votes at the Kentucky Expo Center.Pat McDonogh/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Tuesday, Kentucky voters will determine which Democrat will challenge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November. Recent events have tightened the primary into a competitive race: In March, eight police…