Trump Administration to Asylum Seekers: Find a Homeless Shelter
Stefani Reynolds/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As the Trump administration readies a plan to bar many asylum seekers from working, it has some advice for them: Start getting familiar with “homelessness resources.” Currently, asylum seekers are allowed to apply for work permits 150 days after submitting their asylum…
Republicans Just Don’t Want to Wear Masks
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More Than 132,000 People Are Helping Out on a New Website for Volunteers
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.“Pandemic of Love” might be the least-subtle name for a volunteer website of its kind, but you can’t argue with $18 million in contributions and 132,000-plus success stories since the site’s launch a few months ago. As the pandemic stretches on, a…
Raw Data: Arrest Rates for Violent Crime
As we debate the defunding/reimagining/reforming of our police forces, it’s worth taking a look at what the world looks like today compared to the way it still seems to look to many police officers. Here are the trends in arrest rates among young offenders since the crime peak of 1992: Among the highest crime age…
A Florida Cop Killed Tony McDade. Now He’s Hiding Behind a Law Meant to Protect Victims.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The shooting death of Tony McDade followed a painfully familiar formula. On the morning of May 27, two days after George Floyd’s life was stamped out under the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Tallahassee police responded to a report of…
Suburban White Women Built “Tough on Crime” America. Could They Help Force Its Demise?
Protestors call for an end to racial injustice outside the Glenolden Police headquarters in Delaware Country, Pennsylvania, on June 20, 2020.Michael Candelori/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.By the end of the day on Saturday, June 6, the biggest day of nationwide protests sparked in the…