A Rare, Inflammatory Disease Is Sickening Children After COVID-19. An Overwhelming Proportion Is Black and Latinx Kids.
A child wears a protective face mask in Kips Bay in New York as the city enters Phase 4 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus Noam Galai/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over the past several months, it’s become abundantly clear that Black…
Herman Cain’s Death Is Political. All Coronavirus Deaths Are.
Dennis Van Tine/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Herman Cain, the former presidential candidate and top Donald Trump surrogate as one of the leaders of the group Black Voices for Trump, died from coronavirus on Thursday. The 74-year-old former pizza mogul had been hospitalized for a month,…
Herman Cain’s Enduring Lobbying Triumph
Herman Cain, then-president of the National Restaurant Association, enjoys a plate of nachos at a restaurant in 1998. Michael S. Green/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Herman Cain, who died this week of COVID-19, lived quite a life: He was a fast-food magnate, a zealously anti–immigrant presidential candidate, a staunch…
Big Tech Won’t Admit They Are the Only Game in Town
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testifies remotely during a House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Big tech companies love to say how, no matter how much the little guy criticizes their actions, the time and resources…
Obama’s John Lewis Eulogy: “Let’s Honor Him by Revitalizing” the Voting Rights Act
In 1965, John Lewis was brutally beaten by Alabama state troopers as he led a march advocating for the protection of Black Americans’ right to vote—an event that helped lead to the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In his gripping eulogy to Lewis at the late lawmaker’s memorial service Thursday, former President Barack…
In a New Ad, It’s AOC Vs. the Kennedys
Frank Franklin II/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) has premised his primary challenge to Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) on an argument about generational change. The 39-year-old Kennedy, the grandson of RFK and grandnephew of JFK, said he was in the “fight of my…