With Anti-Asian Attacks on the Rise, Democrats Need to Figure Out How to Talk About China
Pat Mazzera/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Roughly three months ago, Evanna Hu realized something had to change. For months, she and other Asian Americans working in the national security field had heard a startling number…
White Women Like Amy Cooper Will Never Be Sorry
Christian Cooper/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Amy Cooper could have just disappeared from public view. As the white woman who last year became the face of pervasive, everyday racism—Cooper called the police on a Black…
Matt Gaetz Tells Supporters They Have an “Obligation” to Use Second Amendment
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The walls appear to be increasingly closing in on Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican reportedly under investigation for possibly having sex with a minor, with two key witnesses—his former…
A Low-Carbon Replacement for Short Plane Flights: Blimps!
Hybrid Air Vehicles hopes to produce 12 of its Airlander 10 airships a year by 2025.Hybrid Air Vehicles Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…
Joe Biden Has Publicly Trashed Student Debt Forgiveness. But Behind the Scenes, He’s Made Democrats Hopeful.
Michael Brochstein/Sipa via AP Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.By the end of last week, things weren’t looking promising for student loan borrowers hopeful President Biden would cancel large swaths of their debts. First, there…
The “Steady Drumbeat” of Trump’s Big Lie May Stir More Attacks, a Federal Judge Says
Trump supporters near the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021Shay Horse/NurPhoto/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.National Guard troops recently departed from protecting the US Capitol, but the broader danger from right-wing extremists is far from…