Police Unions Have Enormous War Chests to Defend Officers Like Derek Chauvin
Richard Tsong-Taatarii/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.Derek Chauvin, the former officer who was fired from the Minneapolis Police Department after he kneeled on George Floyd’s neck last May, faces a criminal trial that’s scheduled to begin this…
Wall Street May Finally Be Taking Climate Change Seriously
Axiom/Zuma Press 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. Wildfires burned nearly 10.4 million acres across the US last…
Duets on Justice, Poetry, and Music: A Livestream With Nikki Giovanni, Evie Shockley, and Christian McBride
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.“I say to my students all the time, ‘If you want to learn how to write, if you want to learn history, listen to jazz,’” Nikki Giovanni said Tuesday in a…
Rand Paul Won’t Stop Resisting Anthony Fauci’s COVID Guidance
Susan Walsh/Pool/CNP/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.At a Thursday Senate hearing on the nation’s coronavirus response, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) once again suggested that he knew better than Dr. Anthony Fauci when it came to…
Why Black Parents Aren’t Joining the Push to Reopen Schools
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 spring of 2020, with Maryland’s stay-at-home order lifted, a new ritual was born on a cul-de-sac in North Baltimore’s affluent Homeland neighborhood. A group of moms gathered on Friday…
How a Koch-Backed Navy Vet Teamed up With the Antiwar Left to Urge Biden to Leave Afghanistan
Mother Jones illustration; 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.Joe Biden is facing a looming deadline that could define the early foreign policy outlook for his young presidency. In less than two months, he must decide…