In Brazil, We Thought We Had Been Through the Worst. Somehow the Worst Is Yet to Come.
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 first metallic bang echoes a few minutes before 8:30 p.m. Every night of every week, one neighbor from across the street summons the rest of us—not to cheer for health…
Cops Wouldn’t Let an Off-Duty Firefighter Save George Floyd, a Witness Testifies
Pool Video/Court TV/New York Times/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.Genevieve Hansen, a Minneapolis firefighter and EMT who was off-duty and a passerby at the scene where Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, broke down…
Young Witnesses Give Heartbreaking Testimony at Derek Chauvin’s Murder Trial
A memorial for George Floyd near the site of his deathAlex Segura/EFE/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.Darnella Frazier was 17 when she recorded a video of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George…
COVID-19 Is Surging Again in Some Places. Here’s What That Means.
A vaccine is given in Michigan, where COVID-19 cases are increasing again. 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.After several months of declining COVID-19 cases nationwide, the numbers are now creeping back up in some states.…
Inside the Community Patrols in San Francisco’s Chinatown
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.Last Tuesday evening in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Forrest Liu, 27, spotted a blue sedan with four passengers idling at the curb outside a barbecue restaurant, where a woman in a red…
One Man’s Quest to Crack the Modern Anti-Immigrant Movement—by Unsealing Its Architect’s Papers
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.In the days following the 2016 presidential election, then-Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and President-elect Donald Trump posed for photographs at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey.…