I Just Learned More About My Father’s Concentration Camp Experience
August 25, 2020, Dachau, GERMANY: Dachau Concentration Camp. Nazi camp of prisoners opened in 1933. Sculpture International Monument, 1968, by Nandor Glid .Album/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, The New…
Portraits of Survival: COVID and Community Strength Through an Artist’s Eyes
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.When shelter-in-place orders swept the country in March, Ashima Yadava’s first thought was not just to rush home safely to California from New York, but to find ways to make more visible—and help alleviate—a threat indoors. Domestic violence…
Mayor Pete Just Joined Joe Biden’s Transition Team
As Joe Biden looks on, Pete Buttigieg says anyone who would “weaponize a son against his own father” is a dishonorable person.ABC News For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Pete Buttegieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and former Democratic presidential contender, is…
Curtis Flowers’ Murder Charges Are Finally Dropped. It Only Took 6 Trials and 24 Years.
Curtis Flowers flanked by sister Priscilla Ward, right, exits the Winston Choctaw Regional Correctional Facility in Louisville, Miss., Monday, Dec. 16, 2019.AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Mississippi who has been tried for the…
Trump Administration Calls Government Diversity Trainings “Un-American Propaganda” and Cancels Them
President Donald Trump talks to a crowd of supporters after arriving at Wilmington International Airport, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, in Wilmington, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The Trump administration has found yet another way to ratchet up racial tension…
Trump Is Trying to Greenwash His Appalling Environmental Record Before the Election
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump plant trees to celebrate Earth Day, on Wednesday, April 22, 2020.AP Photo/Evan Vucci For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This article was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. During…