Man Who Never Lived in Iraq Dies There After Trump Administration Deported Him
A woman protests the deportation of Chaldeans in Detroit in 2017.Jim West/Zuma A Detroit resident deported to Iraq—a country he had never visited, with a language he did not speak—died this week because he was unable to obtain insulin for his diabetes. The man, 41-year-old Jimmy Aldaoud, was deported in June and died Tuesday. A…
White Supremacist Attacks Have Grown Deadlier During Trump’s Presidency
Mother Jones illustration; Drew Angerer/Getty; Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Two years ago, after President Donald Trump infamously defended a white supremacist rally that brought violence to Charlottesville, Virginia, some law enforcement leaders sounded the alarm about a resurgent threat of far-right extremism. Trump’s “very fine people” remarks in the aftermath of the deadly car attack in August…
Education in the United States
I don’t have any special reason for posting this. But during this season of political campaigns and the white working class and beer track vs. wine track and all that, I sometimes wonder if everybody truly knows who the “real Americans” are these days. The answer is that we are all real Americans, but those…
What If Courts Treated Young Sex Trafficking Victims Like Cyntoia Brown as People, Not Perpetrators?
Maia Boakye One morning in February, Brittney, a baby-faced 17-year-old with short black braids, stands in front of a juvenile court judge in Compton, California, talking about kittens. Brittney had been in and out of the justice system since she was 14, after the state removed her from her physically abusive mother. Diagnosed with post-traumatic…
“This Shithole Made Me”: 4 Extremely Online Writers on How the Internet Broke Our Brains and How We Can Unbreak Them
Jasu Hu Can the very online ever unplug? An entire cottage industry has sprung up around this particular anxiety: everything from offline vacations and “digital detox” apps to books about how we might uncouple ourselves from an economic order in which our very attention is a commodity. Mother Jones put the question to four writers…
Some North Carolina Sheriffs Refuse to Comply With ICE. Republicans Have a Plan to Thwart Them.
YouTube / Garry Mcfadden 4Sherrif On the day his office stopped complying with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, newly elected Sheriff Garry McFadden of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, invited immigrant activists to his offices to celebrate. Grinning, he cut into a white sheet cake that featured “287(g)” in black print at its center, slashed through with…