361 Voter Suppression Bills Have Already Been Introduced This Year
Demonstrators hold signs as they protest voter suppression bill outside of the Georgia State Capitol Building in Atlanta on March 1, 2021. Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via 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.Fueled by Trump’s big…
Oil-Exporting Nations Warned to Diversify Industries—or Face Civil Unrest
Oil workers in Kirkuk, Iraq, in 2004. Karim Sahib/AFB via 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. This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Oil-dependent countries that are…
The Myth of the Supernegro Comes to Derek Chauvin’s Defense
Eric Nelson, Derek Chauvin’s attorney.Court TV Pool/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.“This was not an easy struggle,” said Eric Nelson, the attorney for the cop who killed George Floyd. In his opening statement Monday in…
Biden’s Big Jobs Plan Is Really a Climate Bill. But It Left Out Farming.
This is your food system on climate change. Jevtic/iStock/Getty Plus 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.An ambitious climate bill lurks within the sprawling $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan released by the Biden administration Wednesday. With its…
Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Is Much More Than That. But Does It Go Far Enough?
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.Yes, the $2 trillion proposal President Joe Biden is unveiling Wednesday would fix roads, transit stations, and bridges. But to simply call it an infrastructure plan understates its ambitions. It’s the…
A Growing Website Visualizes and Archives Every Music Genre in the World (or Tries To)
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.As my colleague Maddie Oatman wrote in her interview with the musician Jake Blount back in December, “genres” are neatly parceled networks of marketability, a bit of code to construct artistic…